Salón México
In collaboration with Quebecine and the Cineteca Nacional de México, we present this selection of ten films, including social melodramas, film noirs, and comedies, which are representative titles from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Rare gems with finely crafted direction, showcased in beautifully restored versions.
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Winner of the Arial Award for Marga López in 1950
A trainer at Salón México, Mercedes is exploited by her pimp. With her work, she pays for the studies of her young sister, a boarder in a fancy college who is unaware of her activities.
Emilio Fernández
Emilio Fernández was a director, screenwriter, actor, and producer born in northern Mexico to a Kickapoo mother and a father who was a colonel in one of the armies of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. His involvement in Mexico's revolutionary events forced him to flee the country and move to the United States in 1923, following the failure of a revolutionary coup led by Adolfo de la Huerta. He settled in Hollywood and worked as an extra, notably serving as the double for actor Douglas Fairbanks. Considered one of the greatest Mexican directors of the 20th century, he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for his film María Candelaria.
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