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Luz’s Motives (1985) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1985 · 96 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Felipe Cazals
- Starring
- Ana Ofelia Murguía, Marta Aura, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Dunia Saldívar, María Prado, Alonso Echánove
Luz sits in a prison cell, accused of brutally murdering her own children. Both her husband and mother‑in‑law insist she killed them cold‑blooded. Dr. Rebollar, a psychiatrist, tries to coax a confession, but Luz refuses to recall any details. She imagines the jail as a purgatory, a single step away from a promised Heaven.
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