Victims of Sin (Fernandez/Sevilla, 1951): Garden Cinema, 3pm
This film, part of the Noir International season, also screens on June 17th and 23rd.
Garden Cinema introduction:
A
treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted
blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo
musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings
fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera - a
female nightclub dancer - who gives up everything to raise an abandoned
boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father. Directed
at a dizzying pace by filmmaking titan Emilio Fernández, and shot in
stylish chiaroscuro by renowned cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa amid
smoky dance halls and atmospherically seedy underworld haunts, Victims of Sin is
a ferociously entertaining female-powered noir pulsing with the
intoxicating rhythms of some of Latin America’s most legendary musical
stars.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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