2008 · romance · drama · supernatural
Tear This Heart Out
Directed by Roberto Sneider1h 47m2008
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Our read: Tear This Heart Out (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded romance · drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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