Gabriel García Márquez, Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Sánchez, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, and author
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1999
Published:
Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Latino
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
An old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not, so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has broken still beats with a vengeance.