Llévame en tus brazos
New 4K Restoration
Mex / 92 min / 1954 / fiction
in Spanish with English subtitles
Direction: Julio Bracho
Screenplay: Julio Bracho, José Carbo
Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa
Editing: Gloria Schoemann
Producers: Pedro Calderón, Guillermo Calderón
Cast: Ninón Sevilla, Armando Silvestre, Andrea Palma
One of the most important melodramas of the decade, directed by the prolific Julio Bracho, shows with magnificent coherence how Mexican cinema was capable of mixing not only popular culture but also tones and styles... Behind the genre, Bracho’s movie holds a social commentary against the ‘easy life’, endorsing values belonging to the majority of popular audience. Llévame en tus brazos wants to please the big audience, sure, but daring to use in a bolder way the weapons of melodrama. Even the musical scenes in this movie are perfectly measured to fix in its different chapters. This is the definitive Julio Bracho’s heritage, a compendium of styles unified by an artisanal vision. In the highest meaning of the word.
- Adriano Ercolani
