Mexican born legends Anthony Quinn and Dolores Del Rio may be the names that attract lovers of classic films, but it's the soft spoken Lupita Ferrer who takes command, walking out after telling her married lover that she's pregnant and leaving home to pursue her dream of being a flight attendant. That means defying papa Quinn who feels betrayed, but in spite of his bellowing orders, she refuses to obey him any longer. She also can't follow her beloved maternal grandmother's (Del Rio) advise of making a search for love her life's priority. But when her father wins the lottery and tries to bring the family back together under one room, she has to maintain her independence, taking steps that defy not only her love for family but the sacred religious beliefs she's been brought up with, almost obsessively.
Nice to see a film that focuses on the emancipation of an obviously sheltered woman, but where the script doesn't slap the masculine culture of Mexico that dominated family control for centuries. It's just the beginning of a new era for at least one woman, and Ferrer is quite amazing to watch, errupting only when she has had far too much control over her, first from her father, and later by customers who manhandle her. There's also a subplot involving her rather sensitive brother (Sergio Calderón) who can't measure up to his father's macho expectations, showing that the culture was changing for more than just the women. Del Rio, who was a decade older than Quinn, is soft spoken and beautiful, and manages to look a decade younger than him. Depressing with its old fashioned ultra conservative ideals, but subtle in how it demonstrates that time goes by and people change based on who they really are, and not what they're expected to be.
Nice to see a film that focuses on the emancipation of an obviously sheltered woman, but where the script doesn't slap the masculine culture of Mexico that dominated family control for centuries. It's just the beginning of a new era for at least one woman, and Ferrer is quite amazing to watch, errupting only when she has had far too much control over her, first from her father, and later by customers who manhandle her. There's also a subplot involving her rather sensitive brother (Sergio Calderón) who can't measure up to his father's macho expectations, showing that the culture was changing for more than just the women. Del Rio, who was a decade older than Quinn, is soft spoken and beautiful, and manages to look a decade younger than him. Depressing with its old fashioned ultra conservative ideals, but subtle in how it demonstrates that time goes by and people change based on who they really are, and not what they're expected to be.