City of the Blind (1991) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1991 · 87 mins · Spanish

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Directed by

Alberto Cortés

Starring

Claudette Maillé, Arcelia Ramírez, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Elpidia Carrillo, Roberto Sosa, Gabriela Roel

Spanning more than thirty years, the film unfolds inside a Condesa apartment building in Mexico City, where ten interwoven stories take place. The only constant among the characters is rupture, while time and the outside world are glimpsed solely through windows and the objects that surround them. The setting creates an intense sense of solitude, as if living in a city of the blind.