The Eagle and the Worm
6.6
In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.
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Marcelo Alonso
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Dolores Heredia
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Germán Jaramillo
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Angélica Aragón
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Horacio Castelo
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Laura Almela
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Gerardo Trejoluna
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Claudette Maillé
Teresa Ocaña
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Alan Alarcón
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Fabiana Perzabal
Güera Peñaloza
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Jorge Antonio Guerrero
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Hernán
Maria Espinoza Stransky
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Guita Schyfter Director · Hugo Hiriart Writer Sebastián Hiriart Cinematographer
First release October 25, 2023 · Produced in Mexico · Original title El Águila y el Gusano
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Producciones Arte Nuevo
Production
Mexico
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Languages
Original title
El Águila y el Gusano
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Mexico · October 25, 2023
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
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