Cradle Song (1953 film)

Cradle Song (Spanish: Canción de cuna) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes.[1]

Canción de cuna
Directed byFernando de Fuentes
Produced byFernando de Fuentes
Written byGregorio Martínez Sierra (play), María Martínez Sierra (story)
StarringMaría Elena Marqués
Carmelita González
Alma Delia Fuentes
Music byGustavo César Carrión
CinematographyJorge Stahl Jr.
Edited byJosé W. Bustos
Release date
  • 2 April 1953 (1953-04-02)
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The daughter of a prostitute is abandoned in a convent where a nun cares for her, as she asks to not be taken to an hospice.

Cast

Reception

In Historia mínima. La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX, Carlos Monsiváis cites the film when describing what he considers a decline in the career of director Fernando de Fuentes: "The decline is incomprehensible: how is the director of Godfather Mendoza capable of committing monstrosities like Cradle Song (1953) and The Children of Maria Morales (1952)? Is it the exhaustion of a director or the crushing effect of an industry that allows neither rest nor the aesthetic ambitions of its creators?"[2] In Historia del cine mexicano, Emilio García Riera quotes the film together with Sor Alegría (1952) as films that "were about compliant, happy, and heavily made-up nuns."[3]

References
  1. García Riera, Emilio (1969). Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1952 (in Spanish). Ediciones Era. p. 114.
  2. Monsiváis, Carlos (2010). Historia mínima. La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX (in Spanish). El Colegio de México. p. 242. ISBN 978-607-462-380-2.
  3. García Riera, Emilio (1986). Historia del cine mexicano (in Spanish). Secretaría de Educación Pública. p. 201. ISBN 9789682909412.


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