An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Acting
Oberon's brittle glamour barely concealing desperation—career suicide as art.
Cinematography
Yucatán locations doing heavy lifting the script refuses to do.
Director
Daniel Mann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oberon married Wolders two years after filming; she was 43 years his senior. Life imitating catastrophic art.
One of the last films in Oberon's career—she essentially retired after this, making it an accidental swan song about obsolescence.
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