Bertha Moss Movies
An aging ex-prostitute comes to terms with her questionable past in this Mexican comedy from director Carlos Garcia Aqraz. In her youth Amelia del Valle was known as La Paloma de Marsella (The Pigeon of Marsella). Now, as Amelia enters her twilight years, she looks to the past with a newfound sense of peace while anticipating the future with no fear of death or old age. Later, an adventurous Amelia throws caution into the wind by accepting an opportunity to appear on television as she learns that life can still hold wonderful surprises and great adventures. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rosa DeCastilla
The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why -- there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home -- but the guests are convinced that they're stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery, taking an axe to a water pipe for drinking water, killing and eating a sheep that was to be part of the post-dinner entertainment, hiding the bodies of dead guests in the closet, dabbling in witchcraft, and burning the furniture. Buñuel's dry, quixotic wit is abundantly displayed in this film. Leading the cast was Silvia Pinal, the renowned actress who starred in several of Buñuel's Mexican films (she was married to noted producer Gustavo Alatriste, who produced several films with Buñuel). Other than the short subject Simon of the Desert, El Angel Exterminador proved to be Buñuel's last film made in his adopted homeland. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, (more)
- 1961
This threadbare Mexican production (the sequel to The Bloody Vampire) involves 16th-century bloodsucker Count Frankenhausen (Carlos Agosti), whose true identity is known only by an intrepid vampire-hunting doctor. Unfortunately, our hero is unable to convince the residents of the surrounding town that their Count is one of the undead. When his theory is finally proven correct and Frankenhausen gets a stake through the heart, legions of once-slain vampires surprisingly rise from their graves and descend upon the hapless villagers. Though the original production appears fairly atmospheric and features some legitimate chills, it is rendered utterly ridiculous (much like its predecessor) by the atrocious dubbing of the English-language version. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
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