La maleta mexicana

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The story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War negat... Read allThe story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War negatives by the legendary photographer Robert Capa and fellow photographers Gerda Taro and Dav... Read allThe story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War negatives by the legendary photographer Robert Capa and fellow photographers Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour.

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Ernest Alós

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Juan Diego Botto

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Sebastian del Amo

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Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz

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4/10

Fascinating, deeply flawed, perhaps delusional

That an entire culture, over multiple generations is both so poorly informed, so irresolute, so empty of any interest in their past is tragically and graphically underscored here. The clarity and technical drama of the photos is undercut at every frame by the denial, the politite protests that they really want to know, it all seems a bit of a farce to make money and gain a fleeting, nostaligic but almost entirey false view of the depths to wish Spanish culture is broken, divided and knows nothing about itself. Interesting, even fascinating bt does not seem legit. We see people excited to be doing something. At best they are rescuing photographs with an almost non-existant context. Absolutely, the photographs themselves are great. I muted the sound track.