Another Dawn
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Distinto amanecer
Date: January 01, 1943 to February 01, 1943
Dates Note: 1943
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Place of Origin: Mexico
Languages:
Spanish
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Julio Bracho and Mexican Cinema’s Golden AgeDescription:
Labor activists, cabaret singers, and corrupt politicians stalk the back streets of Mexico City in Bracho’s stylized film noir, which adds a unique revolutionary spin to that genre’s rain-soaked, tenebrous aesthetics. “An antifascist noir comparable to and in some ways superior to Casablanca”(J. Hoberman, New York Review of Books), the film stars the great Pedro Armendáriz as a union organizer on the run from government goons; a chance meeting with a former flame (Andrea Palma) leads to further danger. Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa transforms Mexico City into a noir realm of shadows and low-key lighting, flickering with danger, love, and revolution.
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Mexican Film NoirDescription:
A stylish film noir with allegorical intent, Another Dawn encapsulates contemporary tensions between conservatism and a renewal of revolutionary ideals. Andrea Palma’s Julieta is a cabaret singer who reconnects with an old lover and fellow activist from university days, Octavio (Pedro Armendáriz), now a labor organizer. After a night of intrigue, in reverse-Casablanca mode, she must choose between activist Octavio and her disenchanted husband. One of the most distinguished films in a great year for Mexican cinema, 1943, Another Dawn couches its polemics in the policier style, a look at the urban side of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa.
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