Cantaclaro
Cantaclaro | |
---|---|
Directed by | |
Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
Edited by | Gloria Schoemann |
Music by | Manuel Esperón |
Production company | Producciones Interamericanas |
Release date | 29 January 1946 |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
Cantaclaro is a 1946 Mexican
Plot
Florentino (Antonio Badú), nicknamed "Cantaclaro", after saving his family's lands, goes to the plains to learn more songs to sing. There he falls in love with Rosángela (Esther Fernandez), a young woman surrounded by many secrets.
Cast
- Esther Fernandezas Rosangela / Angela Rosa
- Antonio Badú as Florentino Coronado Cantaclaro
- Alberto Galán as Doctor Juan Crisostomo Payara
- Paco Fuentes as Juan Parado
- Rafael Lanzetta as Guarriqueño
- Fanny Schiller as Doña Nico
- Rafael Alcayde as Carlos Jaramillo
- Ángel T. Sala as Coronel Buitrago
- Alejandro Ciangherotti as Juan el Veguero
- Maruja Grifell as Nana
- Arturo Soto Rangel as Don Aquilino
- Gilberto González
- Salvador Quiroz
- Roberto Cañedo
Production
The film was made as part of a spate of film adaptations of Rómulo Gallegos's novels following success of Doña Bárbara (1943).[2]
Cantaclaro began filming in June 1945, after
Reception
In Los Bracho: tres generaciones de cine mexicano, Jesús Ibarra states that at the time of the film's premiere, "the critics were divided their opinions and the public did not like it," stating that "despite the beautiful and fluid language, the dialogues were long and the film a bit boring,"[3] with Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age citing that "some contemporary critics have generally labeled Cantaclaro, along with most or all of the Gallegos films, 'mediocre'".[4] However, Ibarra also stated that with the film "the same thing happened as with The White Monk; Bracho made art cinema, not suitable for the Mexican public in general", going so far as to argue, when mentioning that the film won fewer Ariel Awards than Emilio Fernández's film Enamorada that year, that Bracho's film was "much more worthy of being awarded" than Fernández's film.[3]
References
- ISBN 970-32-3074-1.
- ISBN 978-0-252-09232-9.
- ^ ISBN 970-32-3074-1.
- ISBN 9781838715960.
External links
- Cantaclaro at IMDb