Arráncame la Vida (Tear This Heart Out)

2008, Roberto Sneider, 110 mintues

In 1930s Puebla, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Catalina is a beautiful middle-class girl. On a family outing, she meets Andrés Asensio, a charming and wealthy general. Twenty years her senior, Asensio seduces naïve Catalina and convinces her to marry him despite her family’s reservations. Soon after their wedding, Catalina finds her youthful dreams of romance dashed by the true Asensio.