Burn the Bridges (2007)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 5, 2007Release Date
Burn the Bridges (2007)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 5, 2007Release Date
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Plot.
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
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Cast & Crew.
Irene Azuela
Helena
Juan Carlos Barreto
Efraín
Irene Azuela
Helena
Ángel Onésimo Nevares
Sebastián
Ricardo Blume
Padre Miguel
Claudette Maillé
Eugenia
Diana Bracho
Catalina
Bernardo Benítez
Juan
Pablo Bracho
Padre Chacón
Francisco Franco Alba
Director
Juan Costa
Darío
María Renée Prudencio
Writer
Laura Imperiale
Producer
Alberto Estrella
Emilio
María Novaro
Producer
José Carlos Femat
Grandote
Media.
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Wiki.
Burn the Bridges (Spanish: Quemar las naves) is a 2007 Mexican film directed by Francisco Franco Alba, from an original script co-written by Franco and actress Maria Reneé Prudencio. The film was shot in the Mexican state of Zacatecas and addresses issues such as self-assertion, loss, adolescence, and sexual relations. It officially premiered in October 2007 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. The title refers to a widely known Mexican saying, which means "to cut all ties holding someone to something or someone"—something Hernán Cortés is believed to have done when he and his men set foot for the first time in continental America, in order to avoid mutiny or desertion during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.