Sensualidad (film)

Sensualidad (Sensuality) is a 1951 Mexican Drama film directed by Alberto Gout. Starred by Ninón Sevilla and Fernando Soler.

Plot

The Rumba dancer and singer Aurora (Ninón Sevilla), is sentenced to two years in prison for her part in a robbery with her boyfriend, the pimp "El Rizos" (Rodolfo Acosta). Once out of prison, Aurora and "El Rizos" decide to take revenge of the respectable judge Alejandro Luque (Fernando Soler), responsible for sending her to the prison. Fate reunites Aurora and the judge, and she decides to use all her feminine wiles to seduce him. Without knowing the trap, the judge falls under the spell of the evil woman, forgetting everything most important to him: his family and his profession. The judge degenerates to the point of kill and steal to be near her. His son Raul Luque (Ruben Rojo), begins investigating the situation, and like his father, falls in love to the perverse woman.

Cast

• Ninón Sevilla as Aurora
• Fernando Soler as Judge Alejandro Luque
• Rodolfo Acosta as "El Rizos"
• Rubén Rojo as Raúl Luque
• Andrea Palma as Eulalia
• Andres Soler as Martínez

Production notes

About this film, the journalist Raymond Borde wrote for the 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".^[1]

The whole film is, therefore, about the vampiress starring Ninon Sevilla with an expressive power and good dose of cynical vulgarity. Written by the Spanish Alvaro Custodio, the technical merits of the film and his successful characterizations, became a hit movie that crossed boundaries that no one thought would go beyond: the film was released in France, where was recognized by most of the critics. The Rumberas film, peculiar to Mexico reached in a few years the attention of many specialized feathers, and the same François Truffaut, critic of Cahiers du Cinéma, write many articles about this exotic unique subgenre of the Cinema of Mexico.^[2]

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".^[3]

References

External links

• Sensualidad at the Internet Movie Database
• Tras las turquesas cortinas: Fantoscopá mexicana, Sensualidad (1951)