What to expect
Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa shape landscape, water, faces, and white flowers into tragic pictorial drama. The film’s beauty is inseparable from its critique of a community that converts inherited shame into collective violence.
How to ease in
The melodrama is direct. Watch how public spaces repeatedly invade the couple’s private plans, and how the same village can appear protective, suspicious, and lethal.
Heads-up
A young flower seller and her lover struggle to marry while their village punishes her for the stigma attached to her mother.
The flowers make María visible in the gentlest possible way, while the village insists on seeing a story she did not create. I feel the tragedy whenever beauty becomes evidence against her.
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The flowers make María visible in the gentlest possible way, while the village insists on seeing a story she did not create. I feel the tragedy whenever beauty becomes evidence against her.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Dolores del Río — María Candelaria · Pedro Armendáriz — Lorenzo Rafael
- Screenplay
- Emilio Fernández · Mauricio Magdaleno
- Cinematography
- Gabriel Figueroa
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