To celebrate the National Day of Mexican Cinema on 15 Aug, we’ve teamed up with the Mexican Embassy in UK and the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City to bring you a spectacular season of Mexican Golden Age Cinema.
Enjoy these exquisite examples of Mexican classics, film noir and screen goddesses in newly restored and digitalised prints that promise an extremely high-quality big screen experience, plus a One Hour Intro to the season.
The season opens with an all-time classic La Perla (Emilio Fernández, 1945) and then delves into the stellar career of Roberto Gavaldón, a filmmaker who challenged the prevailing Mexican machismo through male-centred melodrama and female stars often cast against type.
In this festival
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The Pearl recorded introduction
The screening of The Pearl on Sun 14 Aug will be preceded by a recorded introduction from Professor Dolores Tierney.
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The Other One recorded introduction
The screening of The Other One on Thu 18 Aug will be preceded by a recorded introduction from Professor Dolores Tierney.
Previously in this Festival
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The Night Falls
Marcos Arizmendi, a womaniser and boastful jai-alai player, falls victim to blackmail and agrees to lose a game, thus becoming a target of the gambling…
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One Hour Intro/ Mexican Golden Age Cinema
This introduction will give an insight into the Mexican Golden Age, an enormously creative and commercially successful period between the 1930s and 1950s.
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The Other One
Gavaldón directed del Río for the first time in this criminal drama, released at the height of film noir, in which she plays a dual…
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In the Palm of Your Hand
Ambition, criminal passions and the inevitability of destiny-the driving forces of this brilliantly stylish film in which a low-level hustler becomes tragically entangled in the…
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The Kneeling Goddess
The destructive passionate love of millionaire Antonio Ituarte for a haughty model is the backbone of this film in which director Gavaldón rethinks the conventions…
