Film Society BuyTickets membership Sponsorship about search  
  Walter Reade Theater
  Film Comment
  New York Film Fetival
  New Director New Films
  Special Events
   
 
Currently On Sale
On Sale: 2010 Archive
On Sale: 2009 Archive
On Sale: 2008 Archive
Classic Scorsese
MET Live: Thaïs
Roosevelt
SE: Revolutionary Road
SE: The Sky Crawlers
SE: Making The Wrestler
CO: The Magic Flute
Spanish Cinema Now
Cámara
Spanish Experimental
YFF: Short Cuts
SE: Joseph Stiglitz
SE: Secret...Grain
Problem Child
FCS: Les idoles
MET Live: La Damnation
GS: Docks of NY
SE: Sinatra...
SE: Puccini....
Manny Farber
IN: Be Like Others
YFF: Slumdog...
MET Live: Dr Atomic
Gr. Scr.: Panel
Gr. Scr.: Farming...
NYC Opera: Ivan...
FCS: Changeling
YFF: The man who...
FCS: Che!
Jon Jost
Andrzej Wajda
IN: Ice People
MET Live: Salome
Avant-Garde
Oshima
YFF: Sonetaula
MET Live: Gala
FCS: The Other
Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands
Latinbeat 08
Charlton Heston
FCS: Captain Ahab
Robert Gavaldón
Program Overview
Autumn Days
La Barraca
The Golden Cockerel
The Littlest Outlaw
Macario
Night Falls
The Other One
Rosa blanca
Rosauro Castro
Soledad's Shawl
Never Apologize
Revolutionary Romantic
YFF: L.I.E.
IN: Judge & General
FCS: The Deal
Kawakita
Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel
Dominique Delouche
SE: Four Hands
GS: The Cat and...
YFF: American Teen
Slovenian Cinema
SE: Magic Lantern
William Holden
SE: Jazz on a...
Satoshi Kon
IN: Critical Condition
HRW Collection
Human Rights Watch
Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful...
New Italian Cinema
YFF: Judy Berlin
Israel @ 60
Charles Boyer
Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä
Jennifer Jones
SE: Robert Frank
SE: Jerry Schatzberg
SE: Joachim Trier
1968: Intl. Perspective
Romanian Cinema
Met: La Fille du Régiment
SE: Ned Rorem
GS: The Kid Brother
YFF: Le Boucher
Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop...
IN: Phyllis and Harold
NYAFF 2008
SE: Dreams...
SE: On the Street
Met: La Bohème
ND/NF Classics 2008
Gr. Scr.: Garbage...
Met: Tristan und Isolde
Thorold Dickinson
Met: Peter Grimes
Infernal Machines
Rendez-Vous 2008
Green Screens: Flow:...
Met: Manon Lescaut
YFF: Harold and Maude
Film Comment Selects
IN: From the Ground Up
SE: Two Laws
GS: Chang: A Story...
Envisioning Russia
YFF: The Ice Storm
NYJFF 2008
Celebrate Alex Corti
NYJFF JM Screens
Met: Macbeth
SE: City of Men
DOC 2008
Met: Hänsel and Gretel
On Sale: 2007 Archive
On Sale: 2006 Archive
On Sale: 2005 Archive
Archive 2005 - To April
Archive 2004 - WRT
Archive 2003 - WRT
Archive 2002 - WRT
Archive 2001 - WRT
Archive 2000 - WRT
Archive 1999 - WRT
Archive 1998 - WRT
Archive 1997 - WRT
Archive 1996 - WRT

Scene Photo

The Other One / La Otra
Series: Wounded Pride, Simmering Passion: Roberto Gavaldón [Aug 22 - 28, 2008]
Director: Roberto Gavaldón, Country: Mexico, Release: 1946, Runtime: 104

After a successful career in Hollywood, Dolores del Río returned to her native Mexico in the early ’40s and soon after scored an international hit with Emilio Fernandez’s Maria Candelaria. She went on to work on a number of high-profile Mexican productions, including this fascinating film noir from Roberto Gavaldón.

A poor manicurist, María (del Río), has a twin sister, Magdalena (del Río), who has just been widowed by a millionaire. On Christmas Eve, María claims to be depressed and on the verge of suicide, luring Magdalena to her room to kill her. María returns to the world as Magdalena. Yet as she steps into her new identity, she discovers aspects of her sister’s life she could have scarcely imagined.

José Revueltas’s screenplay won an Ariel in 1947, while the moody, expressive chiaroscuro photography is by Alex Phillips, one of Mexico’s top cinematographers and one of Gavaldón’s most frequent collaborators.

Print courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM and the UCLA Film Archive.




Buy Tickets
Sat Aug 23: 8:45
Mon Aug 25: 9