A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
Cinematography
Every frame looks stolen from a decaying cathedral.
Score
Silvio Rodríguez's music haunts like ancestral ghosts.
Direction
Leduc refuses to hold your hand—liberating and terrifying.
Director
Paul Leduc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on José Lezama Lima's impenetrable novel 'Paradiso,' itself a monument to Cuban baroque excess. Leduc essentially made a film about failing to adapt it.
The 'Where are the singers from?' refrain references the Sephardic Jewish diaspora in Mexico—Molina's 'Sefardita' embodies this lost lineage.
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