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Cabeza De Vaca
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302859126
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6302859123
Label: New Concorde
Languages: Latin (Original Language), AnalogSpanish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: New Concorde
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Concorde
Release Date: July 31, 2001
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: New Concorde
Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 1992
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Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Fascinating and Entertaining
Complaints about how this film departs from the original memoir are unfair for two reasons:
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!
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant art movie (in a terrible DVD rendering)
Cabeza de Vaca is a Mexican movie about a conquistador who survives a shipwreck and ... well, no spoilers here...
Since "Cabeza de Vaca" is a multiple times awarded Mexican movie, any expectation of epic Hollywood-style action means that one didn't pay attention.
Looking at "Cabeza de Vaca"'s background, one can only expect expect an intellectual effort in a "foreign" style.
If you watch the movie on that premise, it clearly delivers:
"Cabeza de Vaca" may be compared ... Read More
Rating:  - Confusing and Boring
I had really looked forward to viewing this movie. I guess I should have read all the reviews before I bought it. I was expecting a rendering of de Vaca's actual survival experiences and hoping to learn more about a fascinating bit of history. Instead the movie focused on a few of his experiences which were so mysterious as to be unintelligible and dragged those scenes out into sheer boredom. The movie jumped from one experience to the next with no narrative and no explanation of time passed. There was ... Read More
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