Francisco Reiguera

Based on the story of a 5th century ascetic who spent his days perched alone at the top of a pillar, with the added spice and satire that is typical of Buñuel. Silvia Pinal appears to have a blast as the shape-shifting Devil determined to tempt him down and lure him to a most surreal and otherworldly destination.

A sizzling, feverish melodrama set amid Mexico City’s red-light district nightclubs, this explosive cabaretera film stars the white-hot Ninón Sevilla as Violeta, a rhumba performer who rescues a baby boy abandoned by a fellow dancer. Against the odds, Violeta raises the child as her own, all the while defending him from his father, the ruthless gangster-pimp Rodolfo.