It was filmed on location in San Cristóbal de las Casas , Chiapas, Mexico.
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This time, a musician named Syma (or was that her nickname for him?). He played a melancholic oud on the balcony of a flat I didn't recognize. My mother danced barefoot, her sundress spinning. The footage was dreamier, softer focus. They drove through a desert at sunset. He wrote her a poem on a napkin. But the last shot was the same: a door closing, this time with her hand pressed against the glass from the inside. It was filmed on location in San Cristóbal
at the Campeche Film Festival. Film Overview No smile