La mujer de nadie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La mujer de nadie |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adela Sequeyro |
| script | Adela Sequeyro |
| production | Adela Sequeyro |
| music | Armando Rosales |
| camera | Alex Phillips |
| cut |
José Marino Adela Sequeyro |
| occupation | |
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La mujer de nadie is a Mexican film from the year 1937 , in which Adela Sequeyro Director led. It is the first film in Mexico to be directed by a woman. Sequeyro also wrote the script, produced the film and acted as an actress. The melodrama tells the story of Ana María, played by Sequeyros, who flees from her brutal stepfather in the 19th century. She is friends with the poet Leonardo, artist Marcelo and the musician Rodolfo, all of whom create three works inspired by her. Ana María is in love with Marcelo, but cannot bear the pain she would cause the other two. Therefore she leaves all three at the end of the film.
After Sequeyros' first production company, Exito, went bankrupt after the film Más allá de la muerte , for which she was assistant director, she founded the production company Carola with her husband, Mario Tenorio , in 1937 . With this she produced La mujer de nadie . The film premiered on October 27, 1937 at the Belmolri Cinema in Mexico City . The Mexican film historian Emilio García Riera praised the artistic execution of La mujer de nadie in his work Historia documental del cine mexicano . He highlighted Alex Phillips' camerawork , the beautifully designed sets, and Sequeyro's sense of framing that would mask the thinness of the plot. The contemporary criticism was also positive. Carlos del Paso praised his precise dialogues, his humor and his concentration with only four main characters and three sets in the newspaper Revista de revista . For him, La mujer de nadie was without a forerunner in the Mexican film industry. Using the example of Sequeyros in the newspaper El universal grafico , María Celia del Villar argued that women have a place in art. She emphasized that Adela Sequeyros worked successfully as an actress, writer and director. Although the film was recognized artistically, it was not financially successful. Despite the financial difficulties, Adela Sequeyro was able to realize her last film Diablillos de arrabal the following year .
literature
- David E. Wilt: The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001 . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6 .
- Carl J. Mora: Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2005, ISBN 978-0-7864-2083-4 .
- Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro, Patricia Torres San Martín and Julianne Burton-Carvajal: Adela Sequeyro, Mexican Film Pioneer , in: Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 44, No. 3/4, Latin American Cinema: Gender Perspectives (Fall 1992 and Winter 1993), pp. 27-32.
Web links
- La mujer de nadie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Description of La mujer de nadie on cinemexicano.mx
Individual evidence
- ↑ David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001" . McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. page 36.
- ↑ de la Vega Alfaro, Torres San Martín and Burton-Carvajal, p. 27.
- ↑ de la Vega Alfaro, Torres San Martín and Burton-Carvajal, pp. 30-31.
- ↑ de la Vega Alfaro, Torres San Martín and Burton-Carvajal, p. 31.