La mujer del puerto

Rosario grows up in an average family and is soon to be married to her partner. After her father fell sick, and consequently died, she turns to her boyfriend, but she finds him with another woman. Distraught, she leaves home and settles in Veracruz. She sets up house above a cabaret and decides to sell “love” to sailors who moor at the Gulf of Mexico. Rosario enjoys being heartless with men and their feelings, but this is not without problems.

Ben Singer: “An elemental seduced-and-abandoned fallen woman melodrama climaxing in a worst-case-scenario anagnorisis (recognition scene). Helmed with notable aesthetic panache by cosmopolitan emigre Russian director Arcady Boytler, this long-overlooked film is now recognized as a masterwork of early Mexican popular cinema.”

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