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"El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel)"
1999
Directed by Arturo Ripstein

Legendary Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein (Deep Crimson) directs this drama based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A retired colonel (Fernando Lujan) waits in vain for his government pension and travels to the docks each day dressed in his finest to wait for its delivery. Everyone in the small coastal town knows the pension will never arrive, as does the Colonel, yet he refuses to give up hope. A remarkable study of a man's inner strength that has been damaged by years of waiting. Salma Hayek appears briefly as a prostitute who has an affair with the colonel's son. Spanish with English subtitles.  118 minutes.

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