Checking the HOME website, I found out that the cinema in Manchester was soon holding a cinema of Mexico season. Looking down the list, I realized that I for years,I have had the titles waiting to be played. This led to me picking up the first movie, and placing it in the palm of my hand.
View on the film:
Pretending to be blessed with the ability of seeing the path someone will in the future walk down, by looking at the palm of their hand, Arturo de Cordova gives a wicked performance as Karin, whose supernatural skills are used by Cordova to give Karin a devilish cad smile, which Cordova gradually breaks with fear, as Karin sinks into becoming a Noir loner, in Ada's house of horror.
Spending the whole movie wearing black clothes and looking like the bride wore black, Leticia Palma gives a sizzling Femme Fatale performance as Ada, with Palma emphasizing a seductiveness which places all men under her spell,that Palma has Ada twists to a hard, snap viciousness, as Karin raises some doubts over the recent, sudden death of Ada's rich husband.
Laying out the cards to Karin's long- con across an overlapping opening montage of newspaper headlines over Russia getting the nuke, co-writer (with Luis Spota and Jose Revueltas) / director Roberto Gavaldon & cinematographer Alex Phillips unveil a silky supernatural (not Horror) Film Noir atmosphere, via superbly framed, push-in reflecting shots on the mirrors where Karin and Ada attempt to hide the tricks being their deceiving spells, which are broken by Gavaldon & Phillips with stylish superimposition close-ups on Karin's death face facing Noir loner despair.
Chipping through every layer of Karin's razzmatazz image, the writers wonderfully use Karin's fake palm reading, to pull him further down a doom-laden line, leading to him meeting Ada, who shares the same belief of being just one more con away, from having all riches, in the palm of her hand.
View on the film:
Pretending to be blessed with the ability of seeing the path someone will in the future walk down, by looking at the palm of their hand, Arturo de Cordova gives a wicked performance as Karin, whose supernatural skills are used by Cordova to give Karin a devilish cad smile, which Cordova gradually breaks with fear, as Karin sinks into becoming a Noir loner, in Ada's house of horror.
Spending the whole movie wearing black clothes and looking like the bride wore black, Leticia Palma gives a sizzling Femme Fatale performance as Ada, with Palma emphasizing a seductiveness which places all men under her spell,that Palma has Ada twists to a hard, snap viciousness, as Karin raises some doubts over the recent, sudden death of Ada's rich husband.
Laying out the cards to Karin's long- con across an overlapping opening montage of newspaper headlines over Russia getting the nuke, co-writer (with Luis Spota and Jose Revueltas) / director Roberto Gavaldon & cinematographer Alex Phillips unveil a silky supernatural (not Horror) Film Noir atmosphere, via superbly framed, push-in reflecting shots on the mirrors where Karin and Ada attempt to hide the tricks being their deceiving spells, which are broken by Gavaldon & Phillips with stylish superimposition close-ups on Karin's death face facing Noir loner despair.
Chipping through every layer of Karin's razzmatazz image, the writers wonderfully use Karin's fake palm reading, to pull him further down a doom-laden line, leading to him meeting Ada, who shares the same belief of being just one more con away, from having all riches, in the palm of her hand.