Review Of The Film “Nudo Mixteca” By Ángeles Cruz, Or “Manifiesto On The Perspectives Of Closeness"”

Abstract

Starting from the commonly used structure of the review in the cinema, it is that some proposals are presented for the approach of complex issues when they are problematized from the social sciences and humanities, especially history. The reviewed film is the most recent by director Ángeles Cruz, “Nudo Mixteco” which initially premiered on March 9, 2021 and reached our CONARTE Cineteca theaters last May. It presents three cases of fictitious women but real stories that deal with lesbophobic family rejection, the misogynistic violence exercised by numerous men against their partners, family pacts to cover up aggressors, among other current circumstances that have been the result of constructions. stories about sexualized and racialized bodies. The purpose of this paper moves away from examining the plot, on the contrary, it seeks to scrutinize the implications of becoming more than spectators and bringing the characters who question us closer, even though at first they seem distant to us.