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filming location: Taxadho, Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico

posted 16 years ago by ixta_coyotl
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the new DVD features a 1996 French documentary showing that this was actually filmed in Taxadho, Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico. I used to live near there and have driven right by the filming location probably 300 times without ever knowing it. My guess is that the pillar is still there in the field? Has anyone gone?

Another interesting irony missed by the documentary: Taxa-dho means "white rock" in the native Otomi language. Approprate for a film about a man atop an marble tower!

[–] shroomn 15 years ago

awesome

[–] twelvepointnine 15 years ago

I've tried to find Taxadho in Google Maps, but can't find it. Ixmiquilpan is easy to spot though. If you know where the filming location was, maybe you can find something in Google Maps or Google Earth, it would be interesting.

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[–] Kammurabi 14 years ago

I bet that pillar is still there now. They even tried moving it out of there with equipment and couldn't do it.

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