Claudio Obregón Movies

In this fugitive spree, the fleeing fellow gets angrier and angrier (and tired of the chase) when a little romance comes his way. ~ Rovi

Five separate stories written by Pedro F. Miret are each interpreted by a different director in this 100-minute compilation film. The first story, "Service à la Carte," (director Victor Saca) is about a gentle, unassuming young man who is harassed in the hallway of his apartment building every day by the same, obnoxious neighbor. His "revenge" is non-violent, but very ingenious. The second story, "New Fire," (director Carlos García Agraz), is a sardonic, comic view of the clash between the pre-colonial civilizations in Mexico and the modern heirs of colonialism. A young man has been invited to a costume party and when he shows up as an Aztec warrior in full dress, he faces a disastrous evening. The third story "Reflections," (director Daniel González) features a man on a date with seduction on his mind -- until a UFO shows up. The fourth story "Last Showing," (director Diego López) has some late-night movie-goers caught in an unexpected trap. The fifth and last tale "Silent Night" (director Gerardo Pardo) degenerates into a story of mindless violence from a simple premise of lost sleep and a car alarm that will not shut off. The five vignettes entertain in different ways, though the first two episodes are especially well-wrought. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this story, Terre is a pill-popping hairdresser to the elite of Mexico City. She is in a sexual triangle with her sister and a man named Luis. Her friend, Andres, is an expert restorer of religious artifacts, and the two of them enter into a suicide pact, which somehow fails. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

While films about polygamous men who don't bother telling their wives about their other wives are not uncommon, those concerning polyandrous women doing the same thing are rare. This featherweight romantic comedy from Mexican director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo is one of those films. Esmeralda is passionate about life and simply has too much love in her heart to be monogamous. She is just about to marry her sixth husband, a student named Pedro, when one of her other five husbands calls the police and she is arrested. She tells her story to the stern judge Solorio, and her reasons for marrying each husband are revealed in flashback. It doesn't take long for the judge to become as enchanted by her as the others. Like other Hermosillo films, this one is filled with inside-jokes for film buffs. For example, one of Esmeralda's husbands is a gay man masquerading behind the marriage to appease his overbearing mother. This is a direct reference to Hermosillo's Doña Herlinda and Her Son. In the story's final segments, the director pays tribute to Gene Kelly's famous dance scene from Singing in the Rain via the song "Amorcito Corazon." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi