Roberto Gavaldón's black-and-white fantasy about a poor woodcutter who makes a pact with Death to share a roasted turkey was Mexico's first Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and is the most formally accomplished film of the Mexican Golden Age. Its portrayal of Día de los Muertos ritual and its moral allegory of greed directly influenced Pixar's Coco half a century later.

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