Aventurera
Aventurera
Restoration World Premiere
Restoration World Premiere
Widely considered the greatest film in Mexico’s singular rumbera genre, Aventurera is a pitch-black film noir punctuated by Afro-Caribbean musical numbers. Cuban-born dancer-singer Ninón Sevilla stars as a proper young lady who, within ten minutes, witnesses a parent’s suicide, is sold into prostitution, and transformed into a nightclub sensation. Through these hairpin turns; the rules of female portrayal are rewritten. Elegantly rendered in inky black-and-white by legendary Golden Age of Mexican Cinema cinematographer Alex Phillips, Aventurera is a razor-sharp indictment of bourgeois society.
Note by Academy Museum Senior Director, Film Programs Bernardo Rondeau.
DIRECTED BY: Alberto Gout. WRITTEN BY: Alvaro Custodio, Carlos Sampelayo. CAST: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma, Rubén Rojo. 1950. 101 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. New restoration by Permanencia Voluntaria and Cinema Preservation Alliance from original camera negative, provided by Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, with the support of the Academy Film Archive and Janus Films.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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