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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Nicolás Echevarría |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 17 April, 1992 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Concorde |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Spanish/Misc Sa, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 736991445635 |
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Customer Reviews of Cabeza De Vaca
This Film is a "must see" I have to agree with the positive reviews on this movie. I saw it several years ago, I think on PBS. It was so long ago I can't be sure but what I am sure is this movie continues to haunt me to this day. With the problems about the rendering to DVD, I hesitate to spend $86 and wait only for a better price or a better rendering. The producers and directors of this movie had enormous vision and created a world so alien to us that it pays respect to those characters in history, both Spanish and Native. It should not be missed or forgotten.
See the New World through the eyes of ancient explorers
This movie is so surreal! It places you inside the eyes of early Spaniards landing in the Americas- how they see the land and People, having only their life in a European context to relate. The viewer is drawn in by their fears and superstitions, the mystery of these unexplored places, and the clashes of cultures and difficulties of understanding. I saw a subtle message comparing the indigenous societies and shamans who were in sync with their surroundings, to the Catholicism of the time which seemed to be about fear, demons, and not part of the natural world(and did not save their lives either). Some scenes reminded me of Hieronymous Bosch paintings-as though the Spaniards thought they had decended into a Hell.
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> This is not at all like a Hollywood Native American movie.
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> I have read some first hand explorer accounts from these early times and was entranced by how the director of this movie placed us there in the heart of this "strangeness"- how the Spaniards interpreted what they were experiencing. It does not matter if it is accurate word for word from his diaries- the feeling of being there in that time is very strong.
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> This movie was quite original and well done in all ways.
Fascinating and Entertaining
Complaints about how this film departs from the original memoir are unfair for two reasons:
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>1) In order for any historical film to stand on its own, it needs to mess with the original and find its own truth and shape. Film is art, not history. The question is: does this film entertain and fascinate us? It does!
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>2) Cabeza de Vaca's memoir is full of gaps--he doesn't go into detail about alot of the things he experienced and how he survived. For example, in the span of one chapter (a few pages in his memoir), he tells us that several years have gone by. Thus, the film makers had some flexibility with regards to being creative. In fact, Cabeza de Vaca states in his preface to the king that he is intentionally leaving things out for the purpose of brevity. Also, there was another reason not to spill all the beans-- in light of the Inquisition, there might have been experiences he left out on purpose.
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>This is one of the finest films about the Conquest of the New World ever made. Don't miss it. If you enjoy it, read the original story.