A. Robert Lauer
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Director: María NOVARO
Release Year: 1991
Production Company: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Macondo Cine Video
Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica
Televisión Española
Tabasco Films
Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz
Country: Spain
Mexico
Synopsis: The story of Julia, a Mexico City telephone operator who lives for her nights dancing the Danzón with her partner Carmelo, who she only meets at the dance hall. One day he disappears and Julia leaves town in search of him in his native Veracruz.
Cast: María ROJO Julia
Carmen SALINAS Doña Ti
Margarita Isabel Silvia
Tito VASCONCELOS Susy
Blanca GUERRA La Colorada
Víctor CARPINTEIRO
Credits: María NOVARO Director
Dulce KURI Executive Producer
Jorge SÁNCHEZ Producer
Maria NOVARO Script
Beatriz NOVARO Script
Rodrigo GARCÍA Photography
Nelson RODRÍGUEZ Editor
María NOVARO Editor
Running Time: 104
Colour Code: Colour
Screen 38.4 (Winter 1997): 360-71. ENG. Illus.
An exploration of the genre of melodrama in Mexican cinema and
how it differs from Hollywood
melodrama. Focuses on the substantial foregrounding of music in the former,
comparing SALON MÉXICO
(1948) and DANZÓN (1991).
Canadian Journal of Film Studies 6.1 (Spring 1997):
61-77. ENG. On female identity and the portrayal of women in EL
SECRETO DE ROMELIA, DANZÓN
and NOVIA QUE TE VEA.
Dicine: Revista de Difusión e Investigación
Cinematográfica 65 (Jan/Feb 1996): 24-25. SPA. Illus.
Career interview
with Novaro mentioning DANZÓN.
Sight and Sound 3.8 (August 1993): 60. ENG. Video
note
Cineinforme 638 (June 1993): 70. SPA.
Empire 44 (February 1993): 32. ENG. illus.
*Sight and Sound 2.7 (November 1992): 41. ENG. illus.
Hollywood Reporter 323.50.25 (Sep 1992): 19, 32.
ENG.
Amante Cine 1.6 (June 1992): 4. ESP.
Positif 372 (February 1992): 20. FRE. illus.
Film Français 2382.27 (Dec 1991): 17.
FRE. illus.
Revue du Cinéma/Image et Son 477 (December
1991): 38. FRE. illus. Brief credits and review.
Screen International 808.24 (May 1991): 16. ENG.
*Variety (29 Apr 1991): 93. ENG.
Calatayud, María Guadalupe. “(Con)fabulating Facts: The
Politics of Fantasy in the Work of Twentieth-Century Mexican
Women Artists. María Novaro, Elena Garro, Frida Kahlo and Carmen
Boullosa.” Dissertation Abstracts International,
Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. (DAIA). 2001 Jan; 61(7):
2738 DAI No.: DA9980732. Degree granting
institution: Florida State U, 2000.
Cortez, Beatriz. “Negociando la construcción de la identidad: La produccion de tres directoras de cine latinoamericano.” Romance Languages Annual 10.2 (1998): 512-18.
*Hershfield, Joanne. “Women’s Pictures: Identity and Representation
in Recent Mexican Cinema.” Canadian Journal of
Film Studies 6.1 (1997): 61-79.
*King, John. “Mexico: Inside the Industrial Labyrinth.” Magical
Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. London
& New York: Verso, 1990. 129-44.
*Schaefer, Claudia. “Framing the Feminine: From Frida to
Danzón.”
Revista
Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 23.2
(1999): 289-310.
*Tierney, Dolores. “Silver Sling-Backs and Mexican Melodrama:
Salón
México and Danzón.” Screen
[Glasgow
Scotland] 38.4 (1997): 360-71.
Valdés, Mario J. “Hermenéutica de la representación
fílmica de la mujer: La Regenta, ¿Que he hecho
yo para merecer
esto? y Danzón.” Revista Canadiense de
Estudios Hispánicos 20.1 (1995): 69-80.