Village Girl
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 three Ariel Awards in 1950, including Best Cinematography for Gabriel Figueroa
After serving a prison sentence for injuring the man who abused Paloma, his girlfriend, the farmer Aurelio returns to his village with the intention of reuniting with her. However, the grudges of the past remain present and threaten his hopes, which he is willing to fight for with his own life. This rural melodrama, Emilio Fernández's fourteenth fiction, is framed by Gabriel Figueroa's photography, in which the land and the woman are portrayed as vital figures. (Cineteca nacional de méxico)
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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