Like A Bride

As a lesson in Mexican sociology, Guita Schyfter's slice of Mexican-Jewish life during the turbulent '60s is really quite informative. As a movie, it's a disaster. Oshinica (Claudette Maille), the teenage daughter of Sephardic Jews who left their native Turkey for Mexico City, runs afoul of her parent's traditional values when she decides to become a painter rather than the bride her mother dreams she'll become. "Oshi" becomes active in the Hashomer, a Zionist Socialist group who stress the importance of leaving Mexico in order to build a Jewish peasantry out of the kibbutzim of Israel. Oshi's parents, meanwhile, have found her a nice Jewish doctor for her to marry...