Sexo, pudor y lágrimas

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Promotional poster for Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
Directed by	Antonio Serrano
Written by	Antonio Serrano
Produced by	Matthias Ehrenberg Christian Valdelièvre Titán Producciones Argos Cine Tabasco Films IMCINE
Starring	Demián Bichir Susana Zabaleta Jorge Salinas Cecilia Suárez Víctor Huggo Martin Mónica Dionne
Music by	Aleks Syntek
Distributed by	Lolafilms (Spain) 20th Century Fox (US and Argentina)
Release date	June 18, 1999 (1999-06-18) (Mexico) October 1, 1999 (1999-10-01) (US)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame, and Tears) is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico (the first one was Like Water for Chocolate) and the directorial debut of Antonio Serrano.

The film is based on the successful play of the same name, which ran for two consecutive years and was written by Serrano himself. After the film was released it broke box-office records in Mexico (MX$118 million, roughly US$10.9 million), it was shown for more than twenty-seven weeks, and was seen by more than eight million people in Mexico alone.^[1] The film won five Ariel Awards.

As of December 2018, Sexo, pudor y lágrimas still held the record as Mexico's highest-grossing film of all time.^[2]

Plot[]

Tomás returns to Mexico after a seven-year trip around the world to visit his friends Carlos and Ana, a couple going through relationship problems. Ana is seduced by Tomás, who is also her ex-boyfriend, which causes Carlos to kick Tomás out of their home. Although instead of Tomás leaving, Ana leaves and moves across the street to the apartment of their friends Miguel and Andrea, another couple going through problems. The situation becomes a battle of the sexes when Miguel is kicked-out for cheating on Andrea and sent to live with the "guys" across the street and María, their friend, joins the "girls" in a boycott against all men. Tomas then has a fling with Andrea and gets caught in the act. After seeing the emptiness of his life, punctuated with him making a scene at a local nightclub, Tomas declares his love for Ana before apparently committing suicide by walking into an elevator shaft.

Alternate endings[]

In the Region 4 DVD version, several alternate final scenes are explored, including Tomas surviving the fall and emerging in a full body cast.

Cast[]

• Demián Bichir as Tomás
• Susana Zabaleta as Ana
• Jorge Salinas as Miguel
• Cecilia Suárez as Andrea
• Víctor Huggo Martin as Carlos
• Mónica Dionne as María

Awards[]

• Silver Ariels from the Mexican Academy of Film:
  • Best actress: (Susana Zabaleta)
  • Art direction: (Brigitte Broch)
  • Best original score
  • Best original script
  • ambientación
• Audience Award (XIV Guadalajara Film Festival)

References[]

External links[]

• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas at IMDb
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas at Rotten Tomatoes
• Review on the New York Times site
• 20 questions to Susana Zabaleta
• (in Spanish) DVD review
• (in Spanish) Profile on Zinema.com
• (in Spanish) Sexo, pudor y lágrimas on the Mexican cinema site of ITESM

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