En la palma de tu mano
Inspired by North American cinema, we look at a forgotten body of work, buried in our archives: Mexican melodramas, made in the 1940s and 1950s. With it's many stars (especially Maria Felix), Mexico has established a real system, driven by a very cinematic vibe : the excess of feelings. The rarity of those gems is the reason why most of them will be presented in french.
Programmed with the collaboration of Marie-Laure Poiré Bleau.
The charlatan Jaime Karín pretends to be a clairvoyant in order to swindle the clients of the beauty salon where his wife works. He tries to blackmail one of them whom he suspects of having killed her husband.
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Roberto Gavaldón directed La barraca, a film adapted from a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. He also directed La barraca, La otra, La diosa arrodillada, En la palma de tu mano, Rosauro Castro, El rebozo de Soledad, Macario, and El gallo de oro.
