Midaq Alley (film)
- Ernesto Gómez Cruz: Rutilio
- María Rojo: Doña Cata
- Salma Hayek: Alma
- Bruno Bichir: Abel
- Delia Casanova: Eusebia
- Margarita Sanz: Susanita
- Claudio Obregón: Don Fidel
- Juan Manuel Bernal: Chava
- Abel Woolrich: Zacarias
- Luis Felipe Tovar: Güicho
- Daniel Giménez Cacho: José Luis
- Gina Morett: Doña Flor
- Óscar Yoldi: Ubaldo
- Esteban Soberanes: Jimy
- Eugenia Leñero: Tina
Midaq Alley (El de los milagros callejón ) is a Mexican film drama from the year 1995. Directed by Jorge Fons, Vicente wrote the screenplay based on the novel The Leñero Otero Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz from the year 1947.
Action
The omnibus film consists of four parts, which plays action in Mexico City. Rutilio has a restaurant, where his son Chava spends the most time. Abel, the friend of his son Chava, dreams of working in the United States in order to impress his neighbor Alma and conquer. Alma is dedicated to, but José Luis.
Alma's mother Doña Cata is active as a fortune teller; she says Susanita, this would be the man of those dreams to get to know. Susanita learns Güicho know who works for Rutilio.
The married Rutilio has a homosexual relationship with Jimy. Chava finds out and attacks the lover of his father.
Reviews
Derek Adams wrote in Time Out London, the film largely WOULD like a soap opera, he " points " but with pace and humor.
Christopher Null wrote on www.filmcritic.com, the film is little more than a long Mexican soap opera. The number of film awards could impress at best filmmakers and film historian.
Awards
The film received in 1995 the Mexican Golden Ariel and ten times the Silver Ariel; including for director, the script, the score, the cut and the representations of Luis Felipe Tovar and Margarita Sanz. He was nominated in 11 other categories for the Silver Ariel, including the representations of Delia Casanova, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Salma Hayek, María Rojo, Tiare Scanda, Esteban Soberanes and Óscar Yoldi and for camera work and the sound.
The film received in 1995 a special prize at the International Film Festival of Berlin; Jorge Fons was nominated for the Golden Bear. At the Chicago International Film Festival the film the audience prize was awarded in 1995. Jorge Fons and Margarita Sanz won 1995 Golden Kikito each of Brazil's Festival de Gramado; Fons also won the Critics' Prize of the Festival and was nominated in another category for the Golden Kikito. Jorge Fons won the 1995 Audience Award at the Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival. He and Vicente Leñero 1995 were honored at the Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana. The film received the 1995 Award of Film Journalists Silver Goddess Mexico.
The film won in 1996 for Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Goya. In 1996 he received a special prize from the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival for the rental. Margarita Sanz won the 1997 Golden Panambi of Paraguay film festivals.
Background
The plot of the novel is set in the 1940s in Cairo. The film was shot in Mexico City, where the scene of action was laid. He was shown on 15 September 1995 at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the rental was advertised that the film was the most awarded film in Mexican history.