The first Latin-American Oscar nom, and often considered one of the best Mexican films ever.
On the Day of the Dead, poor woodcutter Macario, weary of his miserable existence in Colonial Mexico, decides to stop eating until he can have an entire turkey for himself. His wife steals one, and Macario is challenged by the Devil, God and Death to share his meal.
Macario is widely considered one of the best Mexican films ever made. Its’ themes are deeply rooted in Mexican culture: the gap between rich and poor, and the belief in the co-existence of the profane and the supernatural, culminating in the Dia de los Muertos. Macario provides a unique insight in the Mexican relationship with Death: the indigenous main character closes a deal with the Grim Reeper, who apparently doesn’t distinguish between rich and poor. Macario is a unique magical-realist fable that echoes Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) in the way Death is portrayed – Mexican style.
