Aventurera; Directed by: Alberto Gout: Produced by: Guillermo Calder
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Aventurera' ('adventuress') is the best of the cabaretera films, and. Lovely young Cuban actress/dancer Nin. When Papa learns that his wife.
Elena's mother) is unfaithful, he shoots himself. Elena abandons her. Mexico City to seek her fortune.
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She meets a handsome young man named Lucio who offers to protect her. Rosaura. who offers Elena a cup of tea .. Lucio. and Rosaura are 'white slavers' who plan to force Elena to use her body.
Instead of. prostitution, they force her to perform as the star of a cabaret act! The title song. a gentle ballad sung by a male soloist accompanied by Spanish guitar. Eventually Elena escapes from the nightclub. She meets a handsome and. There is some witty dialogue here.
Rosaura (in. her second guise) offers a cup of tea to Elena, who replies: 'I had. I didn't like it.'Although the plot line is outrageous, it's also extremely predictable. At one point late in the film, as Elena. I found myself thinking: 'Lucio hasn't. Elena.' Just as I thought this, Elena walked into her. Guess who's sitting there.'Aventurera' has some very strong 'noir' elements. Except for Elena and.
Based. on the worldview depicted here, almost all women are treacherous .. This is a filthy little toad- like.
El Rana, who has a talent for throwing knives. He. attaches himself to Elena and follows her about pathetically. His. appearance and behaviour suggest a stereotypical pervert, but his. Elena really seems to arise from dog- like affection rather.
At the end of the film, El Rana murders Lucio with a. Elena goes off to seek a better life for herself. It's clear that this. Elena is unselfish, and that he. I'll rate 'Aventurera' 8 out of 1. Its depiction of life in Mexico is.
Mexican culture .. But the drama turned, with the passing of time, into. Well, anyway by seeing the picture I had the feeling that the. I mean is. that it felt like they were having fun - the melodrama with its. The plot, as such, borders on.
Bu. The objective of the film is naturally to entertain and for. The only thing demanded of the public. The stereotyped roles presented by . It entertains and. Is this a contradiction?
And here enters the heroine. Ni. Her presence fills the screen. She's a naive, naughty and. One can say that the film is carried. But it would be unjust not to mention other actors such as Tito. Junco (El Guapo), Andrea Palma (Rosaura) and Miguel Inclan (Ringo).
One. can detect a feeling of camaraderie among the actors throughout the. There's a musical number where Ni! You'll laugh your. Ni. I only. wanted to add that one of the delights of . I. know there are other related films in the noir+musical vein, but in. I just learned from this site (1.
Oct. 0. 5) that she is still alive, and still working. It helped to have cast a charismatic.
Ninon Sevilla to star as the woman at the center of the action. The story of . The story of a young, and. Along the. way, we are taken to watch Elena Tejero deal with the evils around her. Elena Tejera is different in many ways; she never stoops low to. Ninon Sevilla, the Cuban born star of . She is a gorgeous woman seen here at the height. Tito Junco as Lucio Saenz has some good moments.
Andrea. Palma is excellent as the villainous Rosaura and Ruben Rojo is the kind. Mario. This is a fun film that keeps delighting us. These pulp- fiction film- noir musical extravaganzas. Ninon. Sevilla, is a classic example.
The genre abandoned Mexican cinema's. AVENTURERA throws in everything but the. Hollywood, that's for. Although it differs in it's particulars, this film bears some. Joan Crawford's FLAMINGO ROAD of the previous year.
It. also works the other way around. The Joan's over- heated Deep South. Crawford's carnival cooch- dance and later had her become the hottest. Lute Mae's whorehouse. AVENTURERA careens from one melodramatic situation to the next from the. There's adultery, suicide, rape, drugs.
When schoolgirl Elena's adulterous. She's drugged, raped and sold to Rosaura, an icy queen.
Rosaura could scare the pants off Sydney Greenstreet any day. She eventually. leaves the sporting life behind and moves up in the world. She's about. to marry into millions when she meets her prospective mother- in- law. Roseaura (don't ask)! There's a few more surprises as Elena, bitter. It's the world, not the ruling class, that's decadent.
Joan Crawford's FLAMINGO ROAD, in the end all. Ninon Sevilla, like Maria Montez, takes her role very seriously and the. Cuban dynamo throws herself into the role of Elena with delirious.
Just try to look away from her musical numbers as Americans. Alternating between pert- and- sassy and divinely trashy. Ninon gyrates on bizarrely cluttered sets with fanny- twitching verve. Over- ripe dialog. Elena exclaims ! Repeated viewings are always a treat, especially when the. I loved every over- wrought minute of it!
From an interview with Ninon (. I am amongst the most famous. They still call me the living diva.' Sevilla still. I'm a real blonde, you know.'). She lives in a Mexico City apartment filled with.
When asked to attend a public homage. Sevilla always dresses the part. Born in old Havana, the . With (director) Alberto Gout, she. AVENTURERA and. SENSUALIDAD.
Sevilla no longer dances. Starring. Cuban actress Nin. Over the top photography and acting has to be seen to be. The image of the star in her .
A. campy stage show was created in the 1. Mexico City. The great Andrea Palma appears in. And, indeed, this is the core. Had it been. a novel, this would have been a page- turner, an all- night read. Director Alberto Gout and screenwriters Alvaro Custodio and Carlos.
Sampelayo must have watched a great many American films during the 4. The robbery sequence, definitely like an American film noir, distinctly. But other scenes had a. The nightclub in Rosaura's brothel and her.
It's never obscene or vulgar; there are no nude scenes. Yet the scenes of the brothel show men. In one. upstairs room, we see several couples sitting on couches kissing. The. Hays Office would have demanded that such scenes be deleted. Another thing that interested me about this film: all of the lead. American. Ninon Sevilla, who plays Elena, obviously a. Lana Turner School of Dramatic Arts, acts with the.
Turner flashing eyes and flaring nostrils. Andrea Palma, the madam. Corale Browne with a touch of Gloria Swanson thrown in. It seemed to me that the filmmakers were using.
Americans, though I. American release back in 1. Don't take it seriously. The only thing you need concentrate. Ninon Sevilla in the title role as. Elena Tejero, first an obedient middle class daughter wearing horrid. This is a film you will never forget if only.
Ninon Sevilla is too delicious for words, it needs to be seen, and. I will summarize by stating that her. The Oriental dance here is set in never- never.
Arabia, with polyester harem pants, for the girls, false beards for the. Ninon's curvaceous forms. Her orientalized. I am sure the appreciative. But this is nothing compared to her . We first see Ninon in her dressing room. Although she looks.
You can imagine that this flaming volcano of a. Ruben Rojo as Mario Cervera) from one of . He also happens to be the son of. This middle aged woman.
Rosaura Cervera (played by Andrea Palma) is so outlandish. Mayflower Madam. in Manhattan by almost half a century, that it deserves a study of its. Her. demeanor and looks is that of a Latin Marlene Dietrich, cigarette. Elena's nemesis. Their double.
There are many more twists and. Elena's, and so much more excitement than this summary. An extraordinary creation of kitsch that. Latin soap operas by a generation, this is a groundbreaking. B cinema, film noir and gender studies. Two exceptions are Anthony Mann's 1.
Minstrel Man and Gregory Ratoff's 1. Rose of Washington Square in. Tyrone Power plays an even sleazier and less likable male lead.
Tito Junco in Alberto Gout's celebrated Mexican noir melodrama. Aventurera (1. 95. At least Junco manages to stay on his feet, whereas. Power not only runs out on and sells out the singing heroine (Alice. Faye), but is deservedly beaten up by the comedian, as well as jumping. He's not only a sneaky, repulsive. Junco, but he's cowardly as hell as well.
Mexican . Like Rose. Aventurera is superbly photographed (by Alex Phillips) and also boasts.
Andrea Palmer's Joan. Crawford- like madame and Miguel Inclan's remarkable Rengo who starts. He's still just as hideously loathsome, but now we like him! He. doesn't speak a word.
And as for the lavish staging of the musical. Aventurera easily gets the nod. As for Senorita Sevilla, she is nothing short of. When her mother. leaves home for another man and her father kills himself, a sad Elena. Juarez and find a new life as a secretary.
It's not. long before she learns men want more than dictation. Thanks to Pretty. Boy Lucio, a pimp and gangster, the innocent Elena winds up drunk. Rosaura. This cruel queenpin of crime oscillates between Mother Gin. Sling and, later, Joan Crawford on a fraught day. Elena's future is.
Rosaura tells her. She'll entertain the customers on the. Rengo's knife slice across her cheek.
Elena does what. she must, gains popularity as a dancer, never meets a man worth more. It's not long before Elena is a smash as a dancer and singer in Mexico. City. She becomes engaged to a young lawyer of impeccable family..
Elena by now has turned into a hard young woman who is determined. She may be an. ultimate victim but she's going to see that those who wronged her get. Her curdled milk of human kindness would choke Mother Teresa. Aventurera is Elena's story. Hold on to your hats, your wallets and. We're talking corruption and revenge; songs. The movie is a type of.
Mexican film called a cabaretera, a cabaret/crime/melodrama movie that. WWII Mexico. The girls are fallen doves. The. cabarets and nightclubs are just a step above brothels. The owners. hustlers and crooks are cruel and corrupt.