After having been fired from a sugar mill, José can no longer marry Rita, the fisherman's daughter. When Rita agrees to marry the mill owner to save her father from ruin, violence looms large... Class conflicts and erotic torments – all in one visually stunning film!

Curator's Note

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

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