read eric review again . he perfectly describe my own feeling for this film so more eloquently than i ever could . i be only write here to further encourage you to look for and see it . i saw it many year ago on tv and the ifc i think . it be such a unique film i hesitate to make comparison . it be film in northern mexico and somewhere in the relentless badlands of coahuila or zacatecas or san luis potosi . this isn not the sedona like durango and mexico ( of the john wayne film ) but a truly stark and wild place . i have to find the novel now to check on the original location of the story . like the location and this movie be strange and wild and wonderful and weird and absolutely not for everyone . it be the kind of production that almost motivate me to study film . i hadn not actually forget this movie and it be indelible . yet and over the year and i have forget of it existence . i know nobody who have see it and have never read of it and nor see any reference to it . erendira be such an unusual name and i would even forget the title . well and i will be look to buy a copy now . i have since the above post become a huge fan of gabriel garcia marquez and so regret not have read him before . relative to msmyth comment below while the movie be film in mexico but the author be colombian and be not comment on mexico or mexican history in any way and although marquez now live in mexico for political reason . this story be universal . i be still try desperately to find a copy of this film for my library . like the movie . you have to read the story and then everything else garcia marquz write . and and by the way and the original location in the story be colombia .