Réalisation:
Juan Bustillo OroPhotographie:
Agustín JiménezMusique:
Max UrbanActeurs·trices:
Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Emma Roldán, Alberto Miquel, Manuel Noriega, José Cortés, Conchita Gentil Arcos, Sofía Haller (plus)Résumés(1)
Made in the early days of Mexican sound cinema, this vividly stylized melodrama hinges on an audacious, ahead-of-its-time flashback structure. When the ailing monk Javier recognizes a brother newly arrived at his cloister, he inexplicably becomes deranged and attacks him. What causes his madness? Director Juan Bustillo Oro recounts the two men’s shared past—a tragic rivalry over the love of a woman—twice, once from the point of view of each, heightening the contrasts between their accounts with visual flourishes drawn from the language of German expressionism. With its gothic sets, elaborate lighting, and daring camera work by avant-garde photographer Agustín Jiménez, Dos monjes is a broodingly intense outlier in Mexican cinema, plumbing the depths of psychological torment and existential mystery with experimental verve. (Criterion)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Víctor Urruchúa
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Carlos Villatoro
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
El fantasma del convento (1934)
Magda Haller
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Emma Roldán
Mexique
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Le Château de la pureté (1973)
Museo del horror (1964)
Alberto Miquel
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Manuel Noriega
Espagne
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Tarzan et les sirènes (1948)
Le Rio de la mort (1955)
José Cortés
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
La Crypte du vampire (1964)
Conchita Gentil Arcos
Espagne
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
On a volé un tram (1954)
Don Quintin l'amer (1951)
Sofía Haller
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Beltrán de Heredia
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
El fantasma del convento (1934)
Manuel Bernaldez
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)
Hugo Taboada
Meilleurs films :
Dos monjes (1934)