Tear This Heart Out
Sep 12 2008
•2h 47m
•Romance, Drama
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.
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Ana Claudia Talancón
Catalina Guzman
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Andres Ascencio
José María de Tavira
Carlos Vives
Joaquín Cosío
Juan
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