20 ~ Friday, October 7, 1988 - North Shore News

| HE DUSTY New

| Mexican village of

=m Milagro is dying.

Land developer Ladd Devine

(Richard Bradford) is about to

deliver the death blow with a

planned upscale resort that

will force the villagers to

leave. After ail, with upscale
living come upscale taxes.

But one magica! d2wn, Armante
Cordova (Carlos Rique!me)
receives a ghostly visit from the
wind travelling Coyote Ange!
(Robert Carricart). The frightened
mystic is relieved to discover that
the Angel has not come for him
but to revive the town.

From there on, certain uncanny
events propel a poor Chicano
handyman, Joe Mondragon (Chick
Vennera), into the foreground of
attention. A seemingly harmless
diversion of corporate-owned
creek water to irrigate his bean-
field becomes the focus of the bat-
tle between the residents and big
business. °

Spearheading this resistance
movement is the local garage
owner, Ruby (Sonia Braga). She

Milagro Beanfield War ***
(MCA Home Video) Rated M
(also at the Royal Centre Cinema)

enlists the help of a retired lawyer
John Heard) who has swapped
urban legal life for a quiet ex-
istence editing the community
newspaper. The reluctant
townspeople finally take up the
fight when the dirty tactics, ap-
plied by Devine’s muscle
(Christopher Walken), make them
angry enough to band together for
a showdown.

film reviewer

The acting, particularly by Braga
and Heard, is top-notch, but the
showstealer is Carlos Riquelme as
the stooped, but resolute, old man
with a pocketful of saints.

Robert Redford has created a vi-
sually stunning ode to nature
which took him over a year to put
on celluloid, thanks to some bad
weather. However, the hard work
has paid off making this one of the
year’s most refreshing films.
Bagdad Cafe *** (Cineplex
Odeon Films) Rated M (at the
Royal Centre Cinema)

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This offbeat comedy swept into
town as quietly as the wind in
Milagro and, like Redford’s film,
shares a belief in the power of
magic.

When Jasmin (Marianne
Sagebrecht), a plump German
hausfrau, leaves her husband dur-
ing a trip through the Mojave
Desert, she accidentally takes his
suitcase.

Trudging down the road, she
finds a delapidated truck-stop -
cafe/motel. The bone-weary black
woman in charge, Brenda (CCH
Pounder), is immediately
suspicious and takes out her
frustrations on the immaculate
foreigner She doesn’t appreciate
the cleaning job that Jasmin does
on her dishevelled office (in fact,
Brenda wants the dirt returned to

: desert truckstop in Bagdad Cafe.

exactly where it was) or the close-
ness she develops to the regular
customers and her family.

Eventually the angry woman is
won over, especially when Jasmin
executes some tricks she learned
from a box of magic from her
husband's suitcase. The.cafe rap-
idly becomes a popular oasis with
the truckers, until the law steps in
with the bad news — Jasmin is an
illegal alien who must return to
Bavaria.

Besides featuring an incredibly
haunting song (Calling You b'
Jevetta Steele), this delightfully
original film also exudes charm

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a boomerang-tossing backpacker
and a tattoo artist who remains
mute throughout everything until
she ieaves (‘Too much har-
mony,” she mutters).

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