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El rebozo de Soledad (Soledad’s Shawl)
Thu, Jan 20 | 7:30pm | TMT
Arturo de Córdova, the tortured embodi- ment of Mexico’s urban modernism, meets Pedro Armendáriz, the heroic representative of Mexico’s romanticized rural feudalism, in this rich melodrama centered directly on the structuring contradiction of Gavaldón’s work. A medical researcher from Mexico City becomes emotionally involved with the people of the small village he is visiting for his work—and more particularly with Soledad (Stella Inda of Los Olvidados ), an Indigenous woman who becomes his nurse. The film was Gavaldón’s first collaboration with Mexico’s internationally influential cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Arturo de Córdova, Pedro Armendáriz, Stella Inda. 1952. 108 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela. Screening courtesy of Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica.
La noche avanza (Night Falls)
Fri, Jan 21 | 7:30pm | TMT
This Gavaldón classic suggests that what the boxing world is to the American film noir, the high-speed game of pelota (jai alai to Amer- ican tourists) is to its Mexican cousin. Pedro Armendáriz, Mexico’s great romantic lead, plays against type as an arrogant pelotari who seduces and discards women at will, until he becomes the target of a cunning revenge plot. He meets his fate in a final image that is quintessentially noir yet inconceivable in an American film of that time.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Pedro Armendáriz, Anita Blanch, Rebeca Iturbide. 1952. 85 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
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