Días de otoño

An amazing film, Pina Pellicer was a rising star of her time that sadly ended with a depressing real-life ending. However, she left her legacy in films like this one, "Días de Otoño" is a lovely jewel of the Mexican cinematography, it even shows the grown in Mexican life back in the day in the 1960s. The plot is something like from "The Twilight Zone", or something that Alfred Hitchcock could have wrote for one of his films, and actually, Hitchcock himself was a fan of Pina Pellicer's acting work. It also amazes how a love disappointment plus the thoughts, feelings and comments of strange people, affect the life of a person to the point of almost making it lose their mind. This film is a really good one to watch.

Fascinating representation of mythomania, of how one's own illusions are constituted by the illusions of others, here presented with suggestions of the others that come to life with the character's imagination, the imaginary, being withdrawn and isolation over the real, to expatiate and company, for empathizing and sympathizing to generate a deception that grows and grows to keep up appearances for fear of what others will say, the disillusionment of the deception for who manages to break through the defences and for whom shyness is lost and that deception turned into one's own and resignified, symbolising in the material the overcoming of delirium, shaping the illusion in montage with symbols such as reflections, photos, drawings, shadows and statues, making the reflection of the mirror static with the photo, materialising the imaginary child with the drawing that later is given dimension with statues, the phrase "one day forgetting will end or hope will end" as an aphorism that in order to forget we have to lose hope, but to overcome forgetting is to recover hope, the films that the character makes changing the life of other characters as a metaphor for films changing the life of the spectator, great Gavaldón taking the melodrama to the thriller through Figueroa's precious cinematography.

It´s an extraordinary film. It lives up to any Hitchcock movie! A psychological thriller. You should identify the true mexican aspects of the early years.

One of the greatest Mexican films.

The one who haven't seen this film, is missing an an excellent psychological drama, with an interesting screenplay and good actor's performance, in the beginning of growth of a Mexico City social mid class. With a terrific cinematography, this is one of the few films that en-chances the Mexican filmography of the sixties. Pina Pellicer, a strange beauty actress, who gives the film an unforgettable touch. Her image resists to extinguish in each shot registered. Ignacio Lopez Tarso, is an important element in this black and white postcard. The quote "one day will finish the forgetfulness or will finish the hope" will keep an extraordinary sense of the history. Beautiful Mexican movie. A hidden jewel.