Mexican Cinema Tries to Make People Stupid, Director Says

Mexican cinema died in the 1960s and was later reborn as a commercial formula based on TV shows, which set out to “dehumanize people and make them stupid,” Mexican director Iria Gomez Concheiro said.
“Mexican cinema died in the ‘60s, leaving behind one style in search of another much more commercial,” Gomez Cocheiro told a press conference over the weekend during the 21st edition of the Cine Ceara Ibero-American Film Festival, now being held at the Brazilian city of Fortaleza.
A new generation of young filmmakers is coming on the scene with the virtue of “doing things very differently,” the director said, but she criticized the lack of discussion about movies, the lack of “serious reviews,” and the lack of “trained critics.”