Algo Flutua Sobre a Água

This interesting film was filmed in 1947. The same year, that Arturo De Cordova filmed a great production called: "La Diosa Arrodillada" with Maria Felix too. The reason for what I'm reminding this film it's because against "La Diosa...", "Algo Flota Sobre el Agua" shows the kind of films where Arturo always interpreted the starring rolls between wild selvaged landscapes: Veracruz is the scenery in this picture, where Manuel (Arturo De Cordova) married with Carmina; fell in love with a precious young girl called "Azalia" (Elsa Aguirre), who intended suicide in the river near Manuel's house... The play roll shows the regular problems and circumstances of a group of fishers that tried to make an independent living without the rules of the owner. The film has an approximated running time of 120 minutes. Maybe too long for that decade... Good Luck!

''Like an Azalea flower, floating helpless in the strong current of the river...'' goes the song specially composed for Ms Aguirre in this movie by the Master Manuel Esperón. And is true. Her beauty was fragile and delicate as a flower, and her destiny was not in her hands, so one day she decides to commit suicide. Drowning herself fails when a native (who lives in that small fishermen village with his wife and son) finds and rescues her. But the family, once happy in their everyday chores, gets turned upside down with her unsettling presence. Azalea is saddened seeing that, since she never meant to do any harm. However, she can not control the man of the house feelings towards her, which cause his wife to hate her and the son to wish he was older. The only way out is not an easy one. Based on the novel of Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy,and directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna, this is truly a classic. Somewhat similar is SUSANA by Buñuel, but Susana is crazy and she knows what she does and why she does it... evil woman!