This past Sunday I went to see a Mexican film called Arráncame la Vida set in 1930/40s Puebla. It is a love story about a woman married to a muchacho politico, based on the novel by Ángeles Mastretta (no, I hadn’t heard of her either.) Unlike most recent English films of the costume drama genre it did not have a ridiculous number of over the top lines and best of all – it had no Kiera Knightley! It was funny, had a good pace and, most importantly the dresses worn by Catalina (Ana Claudia), the protagonist were T.D.F (to die for). According to El Universal this is the most expensive Mexican film ever (a whole 65 milliones de PESOS) but it was probably one of my favourite films of this year. Again, according to El Universal (one does not do much research for one’s blog) it’s heading for an Oscar or a Goya so hopefully it will make it to English cinema for Dad to download and Mum to avoid.
Afterwards we went for dinner with a Mexican friend who had requested an intercambio to practice her academic English for her class the coming week. However this quickly descended into a 3 hour long gossip over boys, pizza and Claudia’s dresses almost entirely in castellano. It was so unconstructive that we are now doing the same thing again next week.
As for food (ahem, mum) I had a pizza azteca – pizza with goats cheese and huitlacoche. Huitlacoche is a mushroom fungus and a popular ingredient in quesadillas - it looks and sounds disgusting but tastes the opposite.
Anyways I’m afraid that’s all for now as I can procrastinate no longer and must face the miserable prospect of a lesson on the present perfect, simple and progressive past. Yay.
Afterwards we went for dinner with a Mexican friend who had requested an intercambio to practice her academic English for her class the coming week. However this quickly descended into a 3 hour long gossip over boys, pizza and Claudia’s dresses almost entirely in castellano. It was so unconstructive that we are now doing the same thing again next week.
As for food (ahem, mum) I had a pizza azteca – pizza with goats cheese and huitlacoche. Huitlacoche is a mushroom fungus and a popular ingredient in quesadillas - it looks and sounds disgusting but tastes the opposite.
Anyways I’m afraid that’s all for now as I can procrastinate no longer and must face the miserable prospect of a lesson on the present perfect, simple and progressive past. Yay.
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