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Santitos
New Yorker Films

Santitos reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 68 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 9 reviews
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MPAA 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.


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Maria Amparo Escandon  
DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Springall  
RELEASE DATE: Video: July 4, 2000 
Theatrical: January 28, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Mexico / France / Spain / Canada / USA 
LANGUAGE(S): Spanish (with English subtitles) 

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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