Feature film
Doña Herlinda and Her Son
Doña Herlinda y su hijo
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo · 1985
Synopsis
In Guadalajara, Rodolfo, a young doctor who is still unmarried, loves Ramón, a music student younger than himself. His mother, doña Herlinda, who seems to see nothing of their affair, welcomes Ramón as a second son and installs him under her roof. She is nonetheless set on marrying Rodolfo off, and pushes him towards Olga, a young woman determined to pursue her career.
Context
Based on a short story by Jorge López Páez and shot in Guadalajara on sixteen-millimetre film, the film was produced by Manuel Barbachano Ponce with Guillermo del Toro and photographed by Miguel Ehrenberg. Guadalupe del Toro plays doña Herlinda, Marco Antonio Treviño Rodolfo, Arturo Meza Ramón and Leticia Lupercio Olga. Blown up to 35 mm for its theatrical release in 1985, it then went on to the New Directors/New Films festival in New York, to London and to Amiens. The university's national film archive restored it in 2018.
Who it is for
An hour and a half of comedy with a corrosive humour, in Spanish, about a provincial middle-class family.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the best-known and most widely screened abroad of the early Mexican gay films; selected among the hundred best Mexican films.
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