"It's Not about the Days of the Dead, It's About the Dead in my Family": Lourdes Portillo on The Devil Never Sleeps

The following interview with filmmaker Lourdes Portillo by Bérénice Reynaud was originally published in our Spring, 1995 print issue, and it is being reposted today alongside the sad news that Portillo has passed away at the age of 80. -- Editor “We've been told forever that films should be objective, but we knew that was not going to get us anywhere, because if you don't have a point of view, you don't have anything,” comments Lourdes Portillo on her approach to Las Madres: The Mothers of...