I chose an article with the title “Ixcanul review-a fascinating blend of modernity and ritual. It talks about the movie “Ixcanul”, of the director Jayro Bustamante. For the journalist, maybe the conflict is overuse, but the photography of the place, the performances and how it looks the costumes, makes this a very good film that also teach about other cultures.

This movie is about the life of a Guatemalan family, which lives of the coffee plantation. The story is especially about Maria, the daughter of a poor couple; a man who isn’t in a good position at the plantation and a Mayan woman who doesn’t speak Spanish, but is a perceptive person. Maria’s family is poor and they betrothed her to Ignacio, a man with a better social position than them.

The conflict is that Maria isn’t sure to married Ignacio, because she is thinking about know the world. Well, Maria gets pregnant of other man, but he goes to United State.  Maria’s mother try to make an abortion, but fails, and the people of the town discovered the entire situation and finally they chase out the family of the town. Maria one day is bitten buy a snake and Ignacio helps her and all the people of the town meet to save Maria and the baby. This special part is the combination of ritual and modernity.

The best of this movie is there shots and also that after watch it, stays with you.

I chose this article because talks about the Guatemalan culture, specially the Mayan reality, that many times we didn’t recognize. Also I can see this movie with an anthropology eye, specially the combination that mentions the journalist of ritual and modernity. 

Here is the link:  http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/12/ixcanul-review-fascinating-blend-of-modernity-and-ritual-toronto-film-festival