'La Tirisia': Tracing the Social Causes of Mexico's Perpetual Sadness John Hopewell - Variety
go to original July 7, 2014

LA TIRISIA by Jorge Pérez Solano: Cheba has given birth to another man's son, while her husband was working abroad. Now he is back and she needs to decide what to do with the baby. She has to confront her own desires and what is expected from her in the isolated village where they all live trapped, forgotten and sick with Tirisia, an illness of the soul. (MediaLunaNewFilms)

Sold by Media Luna New Films, and winner of the best actor (Gustavo Sanchez Parra) award at March’s Guadalajara Festival, Karlovy Vary competition contender “La Tirisia” (Perpetual Sadness) turns on two women, Cheba and Angeles.

With her husband in the U.S. for three years, Cheba (Adrian Paz, “The Empty Hours”) has a child out of wedlock with neighbor Silvestre (Sanchez Parra), who spend much of his downtime staring wistfully at planes U.S.-bound. Silvestre also sires another baby with his teen step-daughter, Angeles, a relationship his wife allows in order to not lose her husband. Pressured to give up their babies, which one of them does, both women suffer “tirisia,” an alleged sadness of the soul. Variety caught up with Perez Solano before Monday’s Karlovy Vary international premiere of “Perpetual Sadness.”

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