The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles has teamed with the U.C.L.A. Film and Television to screen Verbena trágica, a Spanish-language film released in 1939 –the year of Gone with the Wind and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Program Notes by María Elena de las Carreras, PhD and Fulbright Scholar
This reference to twisted characters, spinning out of control, doomed by external forces or their obsessions would be applicable to a number of dark films today, like Joker, Uncut Gems and Relatos salvajes, that capture the modern urban zeitgeist.
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