El Cometa (1999)
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A period piece that blends first love, the power of the cinema and the Mexican Revolution, El Cometa is set in 1910, as Medero's factions were organizing against the Profirio Diaz regime. Romualdo (Gabriel Retes) owns a traveling vaudeville show and has just lost his star attraction when his son… More A period piece that blends first love, the power of the cinema and the Mexican Revolution, El Cometa is set in 1910, as Medero's factions were organizing against the Profirio Diaz regime. Romualdo (Gabriel Retes) owns a traveling vaudeville show and has just lost his star attraction when his son Victor (Diego Luna) meets Guy (Patrick LeMauff), a French cinematographer who has worked for Lumiere. Victor is fascinated by the possibilities of the movies, and when Guy discovers Romualdo needs a new drawing card, he offers him a deal -- a movie set-up at a bargain price in exchange for helping to hide Valentina (Ana Claudia Talancon), a girl whose father was arrested for working with Medero's rebels. Valentina is also carrying a fortune in gold which she hopes to smuggle to Medero, who is hiding in Texas, but in the meantime she and Victor begin a romance and Valentina becomes the new star of the show while trying to elude the police. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ana Claudia Talancón, Carmen Maura
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1999 Wide
- On DVD
- Apr 22, 2003
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Cast
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Diego Luna
as Victor
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Ana Claudia Talancón
as Valentina
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Carmen Maura
as Lupe
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Gabriel Retes
as Romualdo
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Patrick Le Mauff
as Guy
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Manuel Ojeda
as Procopio
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Fernando Rubio
as Max
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Arcelia Ramirez
as Cordelia
