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The song "La Llorona" appears in the film Frida (2002), about Frida Kahlo, directed by Julie Taymor [9] and starring Mexican actress Salma Hayek. Chavela Vargas was invited for a special appearance, singing her version of "La Llorona". It is well known that Vargas was a close friend and a frequent house guest of Frida Kahlo and her husband ...
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
This is a literal retelling of the legend of La Llorona (the crying woman), [2] present in many Latin American countries, a symbol of the native woman who betrayed her people by becoming the mistress of a conquistador, and a bad mother – in this case, a very bad mother, "a la Medea"– who kills the children she had with her Spanish ...
The film is inspired by the legend of La Llorona, a woman who kills her children to get her lover back — and is condemned to an afterlife of mourning. 'La Llorona' is more horrifying than ever ...
La Llorona (lit. ' The Crying Woman ' ) is a 1933 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Ramón Peón , written by Fernando de Fuentes and Carlos Noriega Hope , and stars Ramón Pereda , Virginia Zurí, Adriana Lamar and Carlos Orellana .
Jayro Bustamante's acclaimed 'La Llorona' reclaims a celebrated ghost story to expose the atrocities of Efraín Ríos Montt's military dictatorship in Guatemala.
Vargas is featured in many of Almodóvar's films, including La flor de mi secreto in both song and video. She said, however, that acting was not her ambition, although she had previously participated in films such as the 1967 movie La Soldadera. [1] Vargas also appeared in Frida, singing "La Llorona" ("The Weeping Woman"). [16]
Director Jayro Bustamante sets the story of the 'wailing woman' of lore in a Guatemala reckoning with its legacy of violence against Indigenous people.