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Bookmark this pageEl Bulto (1992)
Director: Gabriel Retes
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From Time Out Film Guide
A radical photo-journalist is knocked down by a Government riot control squad ('The Hawks') in 1971, is put into a coma, and finally awakes 20 years later. The household he re-enters - which includes the son and daughter he never knew he had, his wife has remarried - has moved into the modern world, with its Nintendos, Walkmans, and shifted political and social perspectives. 'El Bulto' ('The Lump', as they have referred to him) has to learn to walk again and to live in the present. Director Retes finely calibrates his re-entry from his 'space capsule', and in so doing makes many acute points about the history of social and political change for the Mexico City middle-class intelligentsia.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Gabriel Retes
Producer: Gabriel Retes
Cast: Gabriel Retes, Hector Bonilla, Lourdes Elizarraras, José Luis Alonso, Delia Casanova full cast
Duration: 114 mins
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