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Santitos

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Santitos reviews
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8.0 User Score:

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Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Maria Amparo Escandon

Directed by: Alejandro Springall

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 28, 2000

Running Time: 105 minutes, Color

Origin: Mexico / France / Spain / Canada / USA

Language(s): Spanish (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: R for sexual content and language

Starring Dolores Heredia, Demian Bichir, and Alberto Estrella

Alejandro Springall directs this Spanish-language film about a pious widow Esperanza (Heredia) who uses magic to try and locate her lost and presumed dead daughter who she believes was the victim of a mysterious virus and all kinds of other lurid happenings.

What The Critics Said

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90

LA Weekly Joseph Trevino

Springall also deftly weaves the film's most dramatic moments with lighthearted comedy, and the result may be Mexico's best film in years.

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90

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.

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80

The New York Times Anita Gates

Disarmingly endearing.

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80

Chicago Reader Ronnie Scheib

The incredible adventures pile up unrelentingly, with no inflection, no downtime, and each new space is a set decorator's hallucination, as brightly colored as a candy store on acid.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

It's remarkably bright, funny and sweet for a film that wades through so much sleaze, though it can't escape all of the weirdness it worms through.

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70

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

A brightly colored, picaresque adventure that's equal parts telenovela melodrama and pop-magic realism.

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63

New York Post Hannah Brown

The premise is so sad it's impossible to chuckle at the often heavy-handed humor.

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50

Film.com Robert Horton

A Mexican film that reaches for a very weird and risky tone, and, I think, fails.

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50

Village Voice Dennis Lim

There's no gold dust to be found here, just an awful lot of stick-on glitter.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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