Conserje en condominio

Conserje en condominio (in English: "Concierge in an Apartment Building") is a 1974 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Claudia Islas and Raquel Olmedo.[1]

Conserje en condominio
Directed byMiguel M. Delgado
Written byIsaac Díaz Araiza
Ramón Obón
Produced byJacques Gelman
StarringCantinflas
Claudia Islas
Raquel Olmedo
CinematographyJorge Stahl Jr.
Edited byGloria Schoemann
Music byGustavo César Carrión
Release date
  • 11 April 1974 (1974-04-11) (Mexico)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

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After reading an ad in a newspaper, Úrsulo (Cantinflas) takes a job as a concierge of a luxurious apartment building inhabited by eccentric people who all turn to him to solve their various problems. But when someone in the building kidnaps an important person, Úrsulo must become an investigator and find the kidnapped and the kidnappers.

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Reception

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The presence of hippies in the film and Cantinflas's character clashing with them was seen by Professor Jeffrey M. Pilcher in Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity as "part of a struggle to represent Mexico's national identity," with Cantinflas's character representing the "pelado from the 1930s." Pilcher noted, however, that "although Cantinflas triumphed over the hippies on screen, many young people considered him a momiza (square)."[2] Both Carlos Monsiváis in Los ídolos a nado and Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel in Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers considered it among Cantinflas's most "sad and pathetic" films, alongside El ministro y yo (1976).[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ García Riera, p. 203
  2. ^ Pilcher. p. 202
  3. ^ Monsiváis, p. 101
  4. ^ Hershfield & Maciel, p. 64

Bibliography

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  • García Riera, Emilio. Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1972–1973. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992.
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
  • Monsiváis, Carlos. Los ídolos a nado: Una antología global. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2011.
  • Hershfield, Joanne; Maciel, David R. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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