Erendira

Erendira may refer to:

Eréndira (film)

Eréndira is a 1983 drama film directed by Ruy Guerra. The film script was written by Gabriel García Márquez. The original script actually preceded his novella The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother published in 1972. The characters of Eréndira and her grandmother had already appeared briefly in his book One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Garcia Marquez' recreated the screenplay from memory (the original was lost) for Guerra’s film. Guerra incorporated elements from another Garcia Marquez story ("Death Constant Beyond Love") to meet his narrative needs in the subplot of Senator Onésimo Sanchez.

The film was an international coproduction involving Mexico, France and West Germany. It was shot in Spanish on locations in San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Zacatecas and in studios in Mexico. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Eréndira (album)

Eréndira is the first album recorded by the British jazz quartet, First House. It was released by ECM. The album presents a studio performance of leader and saxophonist Ken Stubbs with Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on bass and Martin France on drums, recorded over 2 days in July, 1985 in Norway.

Reception

Jazz commentator Richard Lehnert states "Eréndira's bleak, lonely elegies for deserted cities show how fresh the basic acoustic jazz quartet can sound when approached with awesome chops a sympathetic producer, and most important, the willingness to keep listening to one another. I had the sense of musicians of impecable taste choosing just the right silences to fill, and doing so with infinite grace."

Commenting on Ken Stubbs, Richard Williams of The Times states that,"he seems to owe no aesthetic debt to any other saxophonist.

In Jazz Journal Magazine, Simon Adams states that, " Eréndira is a set that bears repeated listenings, for this is no usual quartet offering of solos and accompaniment but four highly individual musicians given plenty of space to flaunt their skills. The resulting music, with its subtle textures and fine use of space, produces an album of rare beauty."