''En carne viva'' (''In the Cut'') is a Mexican

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by Alberto Gout. It was released in 1951 and starred

Rosa Carmina Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez (born November 19, 1929) is a Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer. She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Orol, and made her debut in Mexican cinema in Orol's film ''A Woman from the East'' in 1946. S ...

and Rubén Rojo.

Plot

Maria Antonia (

) is a naive cabaret dancer who is seduced and abandoned by a sailor named Fernando (

Crox Alvarado Cruz Pío Socorro Alvarado Bolado (3 May 1910 – 30 January 1984), known professionally as Crox Alvarado, was a Mexican actor who appeared in over 90 films. He was considered a popular star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Alvarado had be ...

). After giving birth to their daughter, her suicide mark the life of her daughter Laura, who reach youth follows in the footsteps of her mother and becomes successful dancer. The twists and contragiros of fortune take Laura to live delirious and distressing family recognitions.

Cast

... ''María Antonia / Laura'' * Rubén Rojo ... ''Arturo'' *

... ''Fernando'' * Dagoberto Rodríguez ... ''Miguel'' * José María Linares Rivas ... ''Don Hilario'' *

Toña la Negra Antonia del Carmen Peregrino Álvarez (2 November 1912 – 19 November 1982), known by her stage name Toña la Negra (Toña the Black Woman), was a Mexican singer and actress of partial Haitian ancestry, known for her interpretation of boleros and ...

... ''Mercé'' * Maruja Griffel ... ''Arturo's Mother'' * Celia Viveros ... ''Lola''

Reviews

The film was created as a vehicle for showcasing of the beautiful Cuban-Mexican rumbera Rosa Carmina. Very neat formally, ''En carne viva'' has his best times during the first hour of the film, where the native beauty of Rosa Carmina stands with own light among the foliage of a

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

recreated in a studio where Rosa Carmina seems her princess blue. Above all, the film is a feast for the eyes to recreate again and again in the beauty of the Cuban-Mexican actress, who runs very well her character: not only her oblique and distrustful look is enormously seductive, also it is very believable as she very going from the tenderness to the sensuality and from anguish to the wise resignation.''Fantoscopía Mexicana: En carne viva''
/ref> The producer, Alfonso Rosas Priego had a particularly fond of the argument. The film is also rehearsed like theater, it was very rare in the cinema of that time.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0221153, En carne viva

1951 films Mexican black-and-white films Rumberas films 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican drama films 1951 drama films Films directed by Alberto Gout 1950s Mexican films