Sensualidad

Sensualidad (1951)

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.

Date of release
1951-07-25
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Director
Alberto Gout

Casting

Interesting facts

Sensuality is a 1951 Mexican crime drama film directed by Alberto Gout and starring Ninón Sevilla, Fernando Soler and Andrea Palma. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Manuel Fontanals. It is part of the genre of rumberas films popular during the era.

Production notes

The journalist Raymond Borde wrote for Postif magazine: "In this story, Ninon Sevilla is so evil. She seduces the actor Fernando Soler, the prototype of the Mexican respectable parent: she humiliates him, degraded him, causing him sexually. The sexual frustration of the unbalanced man makes him a likely murderer; his fate is uncertain".

The film starred Ninon Sevilla. It was written by the Spaniard Alvaro Custodio. The technical merits of the film and character development led the film to become a hit. The film was released in France, where it was recognized by most critics. François Truffaut, critic of Cahiers du Cinéma, wrote many articles about this exotic unique subgenre of the Cinema of Mexico.

The artist José Luis Cuevas said: "Ninon Sevilla can get to the worst scoundrel as in Sensualidad. In Aventurera, is the victim, but in Sensualidad she's not. This, to the French, seemed surrealism. They loved it. A species of the Marquis de Sade to the bourgeois morality".

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