Movie: Of Present Body (or the perpetual spirals of pleasure and power)

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    Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, it explores the cinematographic representation of of pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness.

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    1998-01-01

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    9

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    4.5 starts
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