A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
Cinematography
Prieto's shadows eat light whole; every frame feels excavated from earth.
Direction
First-time director's control is almost annoying — where's the mess?
Sound
The murmurs are characters; silence here screams.
Director
Rodrigo Prieto
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Juan Preciado
Dolores Heredia
Eduviges
Ilse Salas
Susana San Juan
Mayra Batalla
Damiana Cisneros
Roberto Sosa
Rentería
Giovanna Zacarías
Dorotea
Noé Hernández
Abundio
Yoshira Escárrega
Ella
Santiago Colores
Miguel Páramo
Gilberto Barraza
Damasio, El Tilcuate
Ari Brickman
Bartolomé
Horacio García Rojas
Donis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rulfo's 1955 novel invented magical realism before García Márquez perfected it; this adaptation arrives 69 years late and somehow still too soon for some purists.
Prieto — Scorsese's longtime cinematographer — finally directs, and Comala's visual grammar borrows from his work on Silence: faith as landscape, doubt as weather.
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