Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?

Directed by Sabina Berman, Isabelle Tardán, Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman leans on a strong ensemble — Diana Bracho, Jesús Ochoa, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.

The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about history titles of 1996.