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Rosa blanca (White Rose)
Thu, Jan 6 | 7:30pm | DGT
After the international success of Macario , Gavaldón reteamed with star Ignacio López Tarso and playwright Emilio Carballido for another adaptation of a B. Traven story, though this time with political implications that resulted in the film being banned in Mexico until 1972. In the late 1930s, as the Cárdenas government was nationalizing the Mexican oil industry, a small landowner discovers petroleum reserves on his property; approached by American interests, he refuses to sell, leading to tragic results.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Ignacio López Tarso, Christiane Martel, Rita Macedo. 1961. 105 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
La otra (The Other One)
Sat, Jan 8 | 7:30pm | TMT
Gavaldón collaborated with his favorite screenwriter, José Revueltas, to create this distinctly Mexican variant on the time-hon- ored Evil Twin plot: this time, it’s the great Dolores del Rio, returning to Mexico from her Hollywood period, who plays the central dual role, as a meek, bespectacled manicurist and her mercenary, man-eating sister. But in this case, envy proves to be a greater sin than avarice. The film was based on an unproduced screenplay commissioned for Bette Davis, who eventually made her version in 1964— Dead Ringer , directed by Paul Henreid.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Dolores del Rio, Agustín Irusta, Víctor Junco.
1946. 98 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Screening courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM, the film archive of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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