07 · 17 · 15 Mexico at Midnight: Article in The New York Times Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The New York Times published “Mexico at Midnight, the Perfect Match of Villains and Foils in Golden Age Film Noir,” an article about the Mexican film noir program that FICM, in collaboration with the Fundación Televisa, the Cineteca Nacional and the UNAM film archive, will present on July 23 – 29 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. La diosa arrodillada (1947) by Roberto Gavaldón. In an interview with The New York Times, Daniela Michel, general director of FICM, linked these melodramas to the industrial modernization fostered by President Miguel Alemán (1946 to 1952). According to Michel, these films spoke to a new urban middle class by dealing with “political and social corruption, greed, international espionage, and even Freudian neurosis.” The article by J. Hoberman ended with a paragraph about each one of the masterpieces that make up the program “Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir from Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age.” In his descriptions, he admires the expressionist mise-en-scéne of Julio Bracho (who, according to Hoberman, was compared at one time with Orson Welles); the versatility and skill of Roberto Gavaldón; and the acting power of María Félix, the Mexican femme fatale par excellence. We recommend that you read the complete article in The New York Times: here.
