“Goes full throttle … Ninón Sevilla plays Violeta with irresistible verve … The hard-luck plot bursts with the moody poetry of alley views and bridge vistas.”

“Va a todo pulmón… Ninón Sevilla interpreta a Violeta con un brío irresistible… La dura trama estalla con la poesía malhumorada de las vistas de callejones y puentes”.

J. Hoberman, The New York Times

Un imperdible de la Época del cine de Oro en México, del Director Emilo “El Indio” Fernández y Maestro de la Luz, el cinefotógrafo Gabriel Figueroa.

Onstage, Violeta (Ninón Sevilla) is the star of Cabaret Changó. When she dances, her power extends over the nightclub’s audience—drunks, musicians, gangsters, and onlookers—which shifts, from chaos to joy, with every transition she makes between tempos and traditions. Backstage, however, Violeta lives under the thumb of the violent and possessive Rodolfo—as do scores of local sex workers and dancers. When a newborn that Rodolfo claims isn’t his is abandoned, Violeta sacrifices her status and sets into motion a generational tale that mixes melodrama, amped-up noir lighting, and dancefloor storytelling that anticipates the intensified montage of Bob Fosse. Director Emilio Fernández, already a Palme d’Or winner (1944’s María Candelaria), together with cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, turn the film’s cabaret confines into a dynamic space for sweeping camera moves. As a classic example of the cine de rumberas genre, Victims of Sin is a jolting rediscovery, mixing high-level craft and underworld action.

Victims of Sin

“Raw, beautiful, and riveting … Emilio Fernández was a visionary populist filmmaker who took the stuff of pulpy potboilers and created works of surprising depth.” 

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

“The cinematography, by the poetic virtuoso Gabriel Figueroa, is classically noir—all smoky, glistening shadows—but the film is in a kind of emotional 3D, flying right at your face and leaving you stunned.” 

Imogen Sara Smith, The Criterion Collection

The cinematographer lines up a shot during the production of The Pearl. (Photo by George Hoyningen-Hune)

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Ficha técnica:

  • Mexico, 1951
  • Emilio Fernández
  • 84 mins. DCP

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Jose Hernandez

My name is Jose Ruben Hernandez Rodriguez, over the last 30 years I have worked for the communications industry in my hometown. I´m a lover and passionate about moving images, I started my career in the early 90's in Radiopolis for a radio station WFM 96.9 as a promo producer, Televisa San Angel within the Quality Control Coordination and as 1AD of Betty Sheridan, who was an important TV Director. In 1997 I started my own company; EnMedio (first communication agency in Mexico) in which I participated as Creative Director and Producer for at least 14 years, implementing successful communications and marketing campaigns for important companies. Since 2007 I am a partner of BF Digital (Boyler Films SC) and Collector Media Makers, working as a video producer, mainly focusing in communications, public relations and marketing areas for different brands-products and companies in Mexico. In 2018 I had the opportunity to work in the documentary Ayotzinapa, el paso de la Tortuga, currently in Netflix, as a post-production supervisor under the production of Bertha Navarro and three-time Academy Award-winning Guillermo del Toro. With this wonderful experience I discovered the importance of documentary filmmaking and that is why I came to study in Vancouver. In September 2023 I graduated from Film Production Program (Diploma) at InFocus Film School. With the aim of expanding my graphics skills, I am currently studying Graphic Design Diploma at VCC Goal. Create pieces that provoke the viewer. Develop, transcend... Grow!

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