As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl..
Thunder Over Mexico: A beautiful, broken ghost of a movie
Is it worth your time?
Honestly, you either love this kind of thing or you’re going to be bored to tears within ten minutes. If you enjoy movies that feel like a dusty, half-remembered dream, you’ll dig it. If you’re the type of person who needs a three-act structure and characters who talk instead of just brooding, lo...
Eisenstein's unfinished project about a peasant whose life is torn apart by a cruel hacienda master in old Mexico. It is basically a series of incredibly gorgeous, haunting moving photographs that never quite got to be the full movie they were meant to be.
Synopsis
As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl.
Review Excerpt
"Is it worth your time?
Honestly, you either love this kind of thing or you’re going to be bored to tears within ten minutes. If you enjoy movies that feel like a dusty, half-remembered dream, you’ll dig it. If you’re the type of person who needs a three-act structure and characters who talk instead of just brooding, look elsewhere.
This is Eisenstein, so of course it looks stunning. Like, stop-and-stare-at-the-screen kind of stunning. The way the light hits those faces? It’s not just a movie; i..."
