Last night we attended the first night of the Hola Mexico Film Festival in Wellington. The first movie of the season was Arráncame la vida (Tear This Heart Out) , the story of a woman who marries a Mexican General in the years following the Mexican Revolution of 1910 . I found it to be a real genre breaker as far as Mexican cinema goes. Over the years, we've seen several Mexican movies, and the general theme seems to be heart breaking tragedy, and rarely a happy ending. This one was different however. Although tragedy played a huge part in the story (I don't want to give anything away, but don't get too attached to the Carlos character. He doesn't last long..), the ending seems quite uplifting. Well, comparatively at least. The story starts when the protagonist is 15 years old, and being whirlwinded into a marriage with a famous (or infamous) general, twice her age. It tracks her sexual awakening as a teenager, through to her intellectual awakening
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