Surf of passion

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Movie
German title Surf of passion
Original title La red
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1953
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Emilio Fernández
script Emilio Fernández
Neftali Beltrán
production Salvador Elizondo
music Antonio Díaz Conde
camera Alex Phillips
cut Jorge Bustos
occupation

The Mexican love drama Surf of the Passion (original title: La red ), also listed as Das Netz or Desire and Passion , was created in 1953 and tells of a love triangle. Director Emilio Fernández uses dialogues very sparingly, not a word is spoken in entire sequences. He expresses the sexual desire of his protagonists through landscape and body, for example with a wave that forcibly penetrates the indentation of a rock, depicted in expressionistic, high-contrast images. The work was a competition entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 and a sensation because of its eroticism. Occasionally it is criticized that the film is too thick with its symbolism, that it has “excellent photography and expressive music” . Over a quarter of a century later, Fernández filmed the material again, this time as Erótica (1979) in Fabre.

action

Antonio and José-Luis rob a safe in a port building. During the exchange of fire with the approaching police officers, José-Luis remains lying, while Antonio is able to withdraw to a paradise spot by the sea. He dives for sponges that his lover Rossana can sell in a town just a short walk away. With the proceeds she procures the necessities of life. One day, the escaped José-Luis appears, to whom Antonio has indicated the place of his hiding. Rossana refuses to take José-Luis into the household because she once had a love affair with him. For Antonio, however, it is a matter of course to help out his friend and he leaves him a hammock.

During the night Rosanna packs her belongings in a bundle and wants to sneak out of the hut. José-Luis notices this, tells them to stay and leaves the place himself. In the town he goes to a pub, where a policeman soon turns up. In an exchange of fire, José-Luis kills two officers and is injured. The few witnesses loathe the police, remove the bodies of the policemen and carry the injured to Rossana and Antonio's hut. José-Luis recovered quickly, and soon the two men were diving for sponges together. When Antonio rudely orders his partner, gets drunk in the morning and doesn't help her at work, Rossana feels drawn to the younger José-Luis. He pays more and more attention to her charms, but hesitates to betray his friend. In the long run, however, he cannot resist her and one night follows her to the water, where she invites him to take a bath. Antonio ran after them and stopped them. After losing to José-Luis in a fist fight, he steals a precision rifle in town. That brings the police quickly on his track. Rossana and José-Luis take up the escape, during which Antonio sees them from a distance and kills Rossana with an aimed shot. Thereupon he is struck down by police bullets, and José-Luis carries his dead lover towards the sea.

criticism

"The triangle story from Mexico, staged largely without dialogue, whose excellent photography and expressive film music outweigh the sometimes exaggerated symbolism."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jean Tulard : Guide des films , Volume FO. Editions Robert Laffont, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-221-10452-8 , p. 1289
  2. ↑ a b Lexicon of International Films , Volume 1, AG. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-86150-455-3 , p. 384