A 1976 Mexican melodrama so extra it makes telenovelas look subtle — Fanny Cano deserved better, honestly.
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a series of conflicts.
Cinematography
Acapulco golden hour makes poverty look weirdly aspirational.
Production
The whorehouse sets are giving 'disco fever meets Catholic guilt'.
Director
Emilio Fernández
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emilio Fernández was Mexico's most iconic director-actor, but by 1976 he was churning out commercial melodramas far below his 1940s masterpieces like María Candelaria.
Fanny Cano was a huge star in Mexican cinema; this role typecast her as 'suffering beautiful woman' so hard she basically played variations of Leonor for a decade.
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