Review Un Padre No Tan Padre [2016] | poetslandscape

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Un Padre No Tan Padre [2017] [IMDb] [FA.Es]*(directed through Ra?L Mart?Nez [IMDb] [FA.Es]*, screenplay by way of using Alberto Bremer [IMDb]) is a Mexican / Spanish language

Okay, but where to?   Well, NONE of his five grown children want him.  Only the youngest, Francisco, going by "Fran" for short (played again magnificently by Benny Ibarra [IMDB] [FA.es]*) who lives with his long-time girl friend (played by Jacqueline Bracamontes [IMDB] [FA.es]*) and teenage son René (played by Sergio Mayer Mori [IMDB] [FA.es]*) by another relationship in a small comune at the edge of Anglo-American expat haven, notoriously "hippie / liberal" San Miguel de Allende (think Berkeley, Key West, "Big Sur" / Santa Cruz / Monterrey) is willing to take him in, if temporarily, to see if it would work...

Well, needless to say, "much ensues ..." ;-)

I just loved this movie and think that it'd be worth it for A LOT of Readers here (both Anglo and Hispanic) to see it because it reminds EVERYONE of the cultural diversity that, if one thinks about it _at all_, so clearly exists in both Mexico and across Latin America.

BOTH "Don Severando" and "Fran" / Alma and their "artist commune" exist.  Where would Diego Rivera or Frida, to say nothing of the characters populating Carlos Fuentes'  or (Colombian) Gabriel García Márquez' novels, come from?

Just a joy of a film ;-)

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