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Joseph Culp

His numerous acting credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s Dream Lover, Monte Hellman’s Iguana and Maria Novaro’s El Jardin del Eden. He was featured in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 and Mario Van Peebles’ Panther and Badassss.

Maria Novaro

Novaro has said that the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Theodoros Angelopoulos inspired her narrative style particularly the way she sees her film story as poetry and not dramaturgy.

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The film follows Julia Solorzono (María Rojo), a single mother whose only escape is in the popular dance halls of Mexico City.

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Her next two features, El Jardín del Edén (1994) and Sin Dejar Huella (2000) focus on the idea of borderlands while still sticking to her theme of females on a journey through Mexico.

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