The following is a revision of an old essay of mine. Changes include minor improvements in English and the elimination of some notes and the documentation; these (where feasible) are partially incorporated in the text. (Especially as my arms wearied from typing, I dropped long notes entirely.) The essay as it originally appeared, complete with […]
Daily Archives: April 30, 2009
An elusive suggestion of Candide hangs about Qué tan lejos, a coincidence-driven film from Ecuador that dramatizes the evolving bond between two bus passengers who for different reasons want to get to Cuenca quickly. The name of one of these women is Esperanza, Hope, and the other, a cynic, identifies herself in response to this […]
Dennis Grunes 