Quemar las Naves

Quemar las naves
Directed by Francisco Franco Alba
Produced by Laura Imperiale
Maria Navarro
Francisco Franco Alba
Written by Maria Reneé Prudencio
Francisco Franco Alba
Starring Irene Azuela
Ángel Onésimo Nevárez
Claudette Maillé
Music by Alejandro Giacomán
Joselo Rangel
Cinematography Erika Licea
Edited by Sebastián Garza
Distributed by Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine)
Release dates
  • October 2007 (2007-10)
Running time
 104 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

Quemar las naves (English title: Burn the Bridges) is a 2007 Mexican film directed by Francisco Franco Alba, from an original script co-written by Franco and actress Maria Reneé Prudencio. The film was shot in the Mexican state of Zacatecas and addresses issues such as self-assertion, loss, adolescence, and sexual relations. It officially premiered in October 2007 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. The title refers to a widely known Mexican saying, which means "to cut all ties holding someone to something or someone" -- something Hernan Cortes actually did when he and his men set foot for the first time in continental America, in order to avoid mutiny or desertion.

Plot

Helena (Irene Azuela) and Sebastián (Ángel Onésimo Nevárez) are a teenaged brother and sister who have been reunited at their home while looking after their ailing mother, singer Eugenia Díaz (Claudette Maille). Eugenia has been diagnosed with cancer and doesn't have long to live, and it has fallen to Helena and Sebastián to care for her in her last months, with Helena (who is older) spending her days with her mother while Sebastian goes to school and looks in on Eugenia in the evenings. Helena is obsessively caring for Sebastián, but while he loves his sister and mother, he seems detached from the affairs of his family. He's more drawn to his roughneck schoolmate Juan (Bernardo Benítez). As the reality of Eugenia's fate becomes clearer, Helena and Sebastián's confusion about love, mortality and family becomes more acute, and circumstances become even more muddled when they take in a boarder, Aurora (Jessica Segura), who falls in Sebastián's wealthy schoolmate Ismael (Ramón Valdez Urtiz).

Cast

Awards

The film won two Ariel awards in 2008: for Best Actress (Irene Azuela) and for Best Original Music (Alejandro Giacomán, songs by Joselo Rangel).

References

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