Academy Awards, USA 2003
| Nominated Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film
Mexico.
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Directed by Carlos Carrera
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Columbia TriStar)
A newly ordained young priest is sent to a small village in Mexico for his first assignment. He soon finds out it is corrupt from bottom to top: the head priest has a mistress, the mayor takes bribes from drug a lord, another priest works with guerrillas, even the old ladies in church steal from the collection plate. When he finds himself attracted to a young girl he finds that he cannot resist and they are soon meeting in backrooms for sex. After some soul searching they decide to get an abortion, leading to the inevitable tragedy. What starts as a condemnation of Christian hypocrisy unravels in the second half as a predictable abortion melodrama.
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