What's On This Week MARCH 19, 26: Cuarón flicks in Jocotepec
MARCH 19, 26: Cuarón flicks in Jocotepec
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- Published on Friday, 07 March 2014 15:40
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Four feature length movies by Mexico’s award-winning film director Alfonso Cuarón will be screened on consecutive Wednesday evenings during March at Jocotopec’s Casa de Cultura. All shows start at 8 p.m. and are open to the public free of charge.
The series opens March 5 with “A Little Princess,” an adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, featuring Liesel Matthews in the lead role. The Spanish language hit “Y Tu Mamá También,” starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel Verdú, follows on March 12.
Cuarón’s modernized version of the Charles Dickens’s classic “Great Expectations,” with Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro, plays on March 19. Closing the bill on March 26 is “Children of Men,” a dystopian science fiction flick based on the P. D. James novel, starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine.
Cuarón received an Academy Award for Best Director his 2013 outer space drama “Gravity.” The movie earned nominations in ten Oscar categories, including Best Picture, while raking in multiple trophies and accolades on the international film awards circuit.