Netflix has just added to its catalog an unmissable film that all fans of the drama genre must see. It was nominated for the Oscar for “Best Foreign Film” and earned a ton of positive reviews, mainly because its plot focuses on the importance of “never stopping dreaming.”
By: Chronicle
Starring the renowned actress Salma Hayek and Fernando Luján, the film lasts 2 hours and was directed by Arturo Ripstein. The narrative is based on the novel of the same name (1961) by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who received in the best way the Mexican production that years later reached Netflix and quickly positioned itself among the most reproduced currently.
Its name is “The Colonel has no one writing to him” and it was officially released in 1999. Critics classified it as “high quality cinema” and its synopsis indicates: “A retired colonel who has lost a son obsessively waits for the granting of his long-awaited pension. Meanwhile, life slips away like sand through his hands…
What is “The Colonel Has No One To Write To Him”, the unmissable Netflix movie, about
The Colonel was promised a pension, which he has been waiting for “uselessly” for many years. Every Friday he stands in front of the dock waiting for the letter announcing that he has been granted it. However, everyone in the town knows that he waits in vain.
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