10 · 21 · 23 STELLA DALLAS Screened, 98 Years After Its Release, at the 21st FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Estefanía Zúñiga Legendary American director Henry King made several of his more than 120 films in Mexico, most notably in Morelia, which he described as his “favorite city in the world.” Imogen Sara Smith Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director of the classic film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, brings back the iconic films of Henry King to the 21st Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), as part of the section called “México Imaginario,” a program of films shot in Mexico by international filmmakers or films about Mexico. That is the case of Stella Dallas (1925), a film that makes a powerful statement on the strict class barriers that were rising in the prosperous America of the 1920s. This film is the first of the seven Henry King films to be screened at the FICM, including classics such as 12 O´Clock High (1949), The Gunfighter (1950) and The Sun Also Rises (1957). Imogen Sara Smith, Chloe Roddick Film historian and critic, Imogen Sara Smith, spoke briefly about the filmmaker's career and concluded her speech with some words once said by King: “A director pours the entirety of his soul through the movie camera and must have some poetry in his soul to be able to tell stories.”
