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Wednesday June 1, 2022

Day: June 1, 2022

Review

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Fernando Ayala’s The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos, 1956)

Jeremy Carr
June 1, 2022
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By Jeremy Carr. The imagery of Los tallos amargos is not only its most strikingly noirish attribute, but it’s among the more dazzling of any film, of any genre.” A cursory survey of film history would seem to suggest that Hollywood had cornered the market on the best of what […]

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