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Considered one of the main exponents of contemporary Mexican cinema, Maryse Sistach, influenced the making of his own films, most of which were loaded with social criticism and less favourable contexts.
Maryse Sistach nation in the Mexico City in 1952 and trained as a social anthropologist, a career that clearly influenced each of her films in which social criticism usually carries a great weight and which even led her to win a Ariel for the film What if we talk about August?.
On the other hand, Sistach is mostly recognized when together with her partner, Jose Buil, He made a film trilogy that highlights the sexual abuse towards adolescent girls in Mexico and although the project sought to highlight a problem in the early 2000s, today it is a situation that still abounds in our country.
These are the films included in the trilogy:
Violet perfume: Addressing a teenager who is in secondary school and who was the victim of a rape, and which, according to Sistach, is based on real events, as she mentions that it is based on the case of a young woman who murdered her friend because of a perfume she used to hide the smell when she was raped by friends of her brother who prostituted her.
The story impacted the director and she made an effort to bring the project forward and obtain several awards both in Mexico and abroad.
Free hands: The second film is also inspired by a real event, addressing the corruption of adolescence and the responsibility of parents in the face of this problem. Here we see middle-class and upper-middle-class youth dealing with everyday problems in the absence of greater economic resources, while others enjoy everyday life by belonging to a well-off class. Faced with this, the group of young people is willing to obtain money at any cost.
The film, although it is the work and production of Sistach, was directed by Jose Buil, And although it did not have the same reception as the previous work, it was nominated as best mexican film in the year of its completion.
The girl on the stone: This film sought to show that cases of sexual assault occur not only in private settings or on the streets of marginal neighborhoods, but that even public spaces such as schools can be hostile environments for young people, especially women.
This film tells the story of Yessica, who turns out to be a victim of bullying at her school where she also suffers an act of abuse, an event that leads her to live a series of uncomfortable experiences at school and causes her classmates to make fun of her.
Sisrtach mentions that he also relied on a real case as in the previous ones; however, here a more rural context is shown, leaving aside urbanity. With this film, he sought to expose the reality of bullying that affects youth in Mexico and especially in the country’s schools.
It was with this trilogy that Sistach denounced clearly and systematically discuss facts that concern and also move our country on a daily basis, and that, although they are painful issues, show how important it is to talk about them openly in order to raise awareness and above all prevent these situations.
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