Salón México
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.
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.
