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CINEMA
'Erendira' is enigmatic, playful
Through such
works as last
year’s film El
Norte and
Nobel Prize
winner
Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's novel “One Hundred
Years of Solitude,” American
audiences have been introduced
to and entranced by the unique
ly Latin American style of
“magic realism.”
And now that the genre has
become the literary vogue
across the nation, the time is
right for the release of Ruy
Guerra's Erendira.
Written by Garcia Marquez,
and based on a selection from
his famous novel, Erendira
could be described as a
hallucinogenic, sarcastic ver
sion of Cinderella. Irene Papas
stars as a wealthy old woman
who, as Erendira’s (Claudia
Ghana) grandmother and guar
dian, practically forces her
granddaughter to work as a ser
vant and handmaid.
After a strange incident that
results in their luxurious man
sion burning down, the grand
mother decides Erendira must
pay her back for what’s been
lost. Thus, they set out on the
road where young (underage)
Erendira becomes promoted by
her grandmother as the desert’s
most desirable prostitute.
The relationship between
Erendira and her grandmother
is complex. While harboring no
great love for her granny, Eren
dira refuses to run away and ac
tually, when given a chance at
freedom, chooses to return to
her life of prostitution. Her
rebellion is piqued only when it
seems she is falling in love, but
even that is undercut most
enigmatically..
While not as subtle or as
poetic as the Latin American
scenes in El Norte, Guerra and
Marquez include an abundance
of visually striking fantasy-like
elements that fall under the '
heading of magic realism.
Scenes such as a paper butterfly ■
becoming real and the grand/
mother seeping green blood are
the most Obvious examples, but
the subtler effects are even.more
interesting,
In one scene Erendira walks
into a room filled with flying .
paper money, kept aloft by. an'
electric fan. She later lies on a
bed covered with the same
money as the camera pulls back
slowly. While not exactly
magical, these bits contain an
otherworldly, feel that suggest a .
touch of the supernatural.
Irene Papas pulls a
powerhouse performance in her
characterization of the amoral
grandmother. A smuggler, a
madame and ostensibly a
parent, she is both pragmatical
ly businesslike and spookily
mystical. While not the nicest
character in the film, she is cer
tainly the most interesting.
Claudia Ohana does well to
hold her own against Papas.
Though her part is less in
teresting, she brings to it
something extra that raises
Erendira above an object of sim
ple erotic adoration. She also
ages well through the course of
the film, subtly showing the
gradual maturation from post
pubescence to adulthood.
The abundance of creative
energy in Erendira keeps the
film original and captivating,
and the addition of funky
humor near the conclusion br
ings an, unexpectedly ap
propriate tone to the final
scenes. Enigmatic, spooky,
visually intriguing and endless
ly playful. Erendira is also in
tellectually stimulating. You
won’t be bored watching it.
If you've, already caught
“Erendira,” check out the cam
pus offerings. Walter Hill’s,
eerie and exciting Southern
Comfort plays Friday in Room
150 Geology. This Deliverance
lik'e tale concerns a troop of
city-bred National Guardsman
on manuevers in a Louisiana
swamp who provoke the wrath
of the locai cajuns. A moody
score by Ry Codder sets the ap
propriate tone for this thriller
Saturday has two top choices,
the police drama The Onion
Field, about the kidnapping and
killing of a police officer, and
Monty Python's I.ife of Brian, a
wonderfully witty and mildly
satirical taje of a reluctant
niessiah. Onion plays in Room
150 Geology: Brian in Room
180 PLC.
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