Sin dejar huella
Mexico,
2000, 105 min
Shown in 2001
CREDITS
- dir
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María Novaro
- prod
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Dulce Kuri
- scr
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María Novaro
- cam
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Serguéi Saldívar Tanaka
- editor
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Angel Hernández Zoido
- cast
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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Tiaré Scanda, Jesús Ochoa, Martín Altomaro
- source
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Tequila Gang, 24 Hanway Street, W1P 9DD London, England. FAX: 44-20-7636-2261
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COMMENTS
María Novaro in person.
OTHER
Without a Trace is a woman’s road movie in which Ana, a sophisticated smuggler of pre-Columbian art, teams up with Aurelia, a single mother who is more concerned with diapers than archeology. As reluctant accomplices in flight from the law and outlaws, they travel from Mexico’s dusty northern border to the lush tropical landscape of Yucatán in the south while they unravel each other’s lies and motives. María Novaro wrote and directed this tale of two fugitives with an intelligent, wry wit, serving up surprises at every turn of the wheel. There is Mendizábal, the delicious villain played by veteran actor Jesús Ochoa, a detective whose sexual politics get in the way of his investigative zeal; the jilted lover—a man scorned, for a change—and his fury for revenge; the Mayan Indians, contemplating the antics of the urbanites with bemused wisdom; and the demands of a hungry baby. Set to a dazzling display of Mexican music, Without a Trace puts two women firmly in charge of their destiny, without sentimentality and without surrendering an inch of their well-earned liberation. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Tiaré Scanda bring this pair to life—two more portraits of memorable women in Novaro’s distinguished film career.
—Patricia Boero, Sundance Film Festival
FACTOID #171
When Festival Executive Director Claude Jarman addressed journalists at the 1977 Festival press conference, he announced that the SFIFF was launching an ’important experiment’ by screening films at the Castro Theatre (at the urging of Mayor George Moscone to take the Festival to the neighborhoods) The experiment must have worked, as the Festival still has screenings at the Castro to this day, in addition to many other satellite venues.
