Felipe Cazals

Biography

Born July 28, 1937 in Guéthary, France. French parents was recorded in Zapopan, Jalisco. The original surname of her father is Bourdelle, the family emigrated to Mexico in March 1949. In Mexico City made primary education before moving to Paris to study film, which imbues the experimentalism of the nouvelle vague, trying this way in his country in two films that precede entry into commercial cinema with the blockbuster Emiliano Zapata (1970), paid for his protagonist, the singer Antonio Aguilar. Make charged historical film until level with those who live where the wind blows soft (1974), The Apando (1975), Canoeing (1976), and Los Poquianchis (1976), chronicles a real crime. Then the blonde Rodriguez (1977) and The Year of the Plague (1978), adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel of Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722), would be irregular, but still higher than the achievements under subsequent years during the crisis of Mexican cinema. A remarkable improvement with light Motives (1985), The Three of Cups (1986), and the wrath of God (1987), without, however, achieved with minimal international reach them. In 2008, he received the National Prize of Sciences and Arts 2007 in the field of Fine Arts. In March 2009, Big Boy filmed starring Alejandro Calva embodying Pancho Villa.