The Guadalupe-Reyes is upon us! And I wanted to share with you a compilation of the best Mexican movies about Christmas to binged watch this December.
Santa Claus
This 1959 film was considered a classic over time, especially in the United States, because it presents a very particular aesthetic that had not been seen in Christmas movie productions. Director René Cardona tells the story of a demon named Price who was sent to Earth to ruin Christmas. However, over the course of the film, both he and Santa take advantage of the children to spread their message, one of evil and one of goodness.
Mi niño Tizoc
Another of the few Mexican Christmas classics is this drama from the seventies. The story focuses on Tizoc who is the son of a flower vendor in Xochimilco who suffers great rejection by the other children in the community and is not invited to the inns, so his father, trying to cheer him up, makes him an inn just for him, but it doesn't turn out as expected.
Los tres Reyes Magos
This film holds the honor of being one of the first Mexican Christmas-themed animated films and narrates how the three Wise Men: Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar try at all costs to stop the devil and his evil plan so that they cannot visit the child. Jesus.
Santos peregrinos
This 2004 film was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Fiction First Feature at the time. It is located in a typical neighborhood in the heart of Mexico City (CDMX) where everything goes as normal, until it is accidentally discovered that the Christmas figurines that adorn the nativity scene year after year are actually made of gold.
Navidad, S. A.
In 2008, Fernando Rovzar wrote and directed this story about a modern Santa Claus who faces global warming and the transformation of Christmas as a consequence of consumerism and the lack of affectivity and coexistence in society. When Santa discovers that the North Pole is melting, he turns to the few children who still believe in him to save his house from being lost under water. Undoubtedly, one of the most moving Mexican films, at the same time, maintains a critique of climate change.
Pastorela
If you are a fan of black humor, you cannot stop watching this classic of Mexican movies. In this story, the director Emilio Portes deals with good and evil through the conflicts that arise in a town during the assembly of a pastorela.
Guadalupe Reyes
This funny comedy could be considered the most recent production in the Christmas theme. It tells the adventures of two friends who meet again after 10 years, and hope to try to carry out the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consists of drinking and partying from the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe (December 12) until the day of Kings (January 6).
La ilusión viaja en tranvía
After a night of heavy drinking, public-transit workers Juan Godinez (Carlos Navarro) and Tarrajas (Fernando Soto) decide to take a streetcar out for a joyride. The vehicle, number 133, is set to be decommissioned and driving it one last time through Mexico City seems like a fitting farewell. It also turns out to be quite an adventure as the oddball duo start picking up passengers, turning the superannuated streetcar into an irreverent cross section of Mexican society.
Una Navidad no tan Padre
Or Grumpy Christmas is a 2021 Mexican comedy film directed by Raúl Martínez and starring Héctor Bonilla, Benny Ybarra and Angélica María. It was released on Netflix on December 21, 2021. Sequel to the 2016 hit comedy 'Un padre no tan padre' (2016). Don Servando and his "extended Hippie family" travel to the beach to spend Christmas with Alma's aunt, Doña Alicia, a demanding older woman who becomes Don Servando's ultimate nemesis. When her position in the family is questioned, Don Servando will stop at nothing to prove that Alicia is a horrible person who only sees for herself... even if it means ruining Christmas for everyone. This is the last film of the great Hector Bonilla.
Tell me, have you watch any of this movies? or have any other Latine Holiday recommendations.
Felices Fiestas,
Haydeé
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