
Take Me in Your Arms
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema
July 26 - August 8, 2024
Julio Bracho’s formally daring masterpiece, one of the most important melodramas of the decade, follows a fisherman’s daughter (the incomparable Ninón Sevilla) through a nightmare of exploitation and misery—along the way becoming a famous soubrette—in order to erase her father’s debts while she tries, again and again, to reunite with her true love (Armando Silvestre).
Class conflicts and erotic torments come to a head in Julio Bracho’s formally daring masterpiece, one of the most important melodramas of the decade. Take Me in Your Arms follows a fisherman’s daughter (the incomparable Ninón Sevilla, also serving as an uncredited producer with brothers Pedro and Guillermo Calderón) through a nightmare of exploitation and misery—along the way becoming a famous soubrette—in order to erase her father’s debts while she tries, again and again, to reunite with her true love (Armando Silvestre). Bracho and esteemed cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (The Unknown Policeman, Pueblerina) bring exquisite atmospherics to each shot with carefully calibrated lighting and meticulous compositions—on location in Veracruz or via stunningly designed and choreographed musical sequences—but the film equally belongs to Sevilla, whose unforgettable performance elevates this rapturous portrait of agitated desire into something far more complicated and ahead of its time. A Janus Films release.
4K restoration by Permanencia Voluntaria and Cinema Preservation Alliance with the generous support of Academy Film Archive, Paso del Norte Community Foundation, FOCINE.
Los conflictos de clase y los tormentos eróticos llegan a su punto álgido en esta obra maestra formalmente atrevida de Julio Bracho, uno de los melodramas más importantes de la década. Llévame en tus brazos sigue a la hija de un pescador (la incomparable Ninón Sevilla, también productora no acreditada junto a los hermanos Pedro y Guillermo Calderón) a través de una pesadilla de explotación y miseria—en el camino se convierte en una famosa bailarina—para borrar las deudas de su padre mientras intenta, una y otra vez, reunirse con su verdadero amor (Armando Silvestre). Bracho y el apreciado director de fotografía Gabriel Figueroa (El gendarme desconocido, Pueblerina) aportan una atmósfera exquisita a cada plano con una iluminación cuidadosamente calibrada y composiciones meticulosas, en las locaciones de Veracruz o a través de secuencias musicales asombrosamente diseñadas y coreografiadas, pero la película pertenece igualmente a Sevilla, cuya inolvidable interpretación eleva este arrebatador retrato del deseo agitado a algo mucho más complicado y adelantado a su tiempo. Distribuida por Janus Films.
Restauración 4K por Permanencia Voluntaria y Cinema Preservation Alliance con el generoso apoyo de Academy Film Archive, Paso del Norte Community Foundation, FOCINE.



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