Movies

La diosa arrodillada [The Kneeling Goddess] 1947 - Semi-coherent Mexican melo-noir starring Maria Felix, the most perfectly beautiful woman who ever lived. Off and on obsessive relationship is concretized when she realizes her married lover murdered his wife for her. This is a story of people who make the wrong choices and must inevitably suffer for them. Not such a great script but a top-notch production otherwise. Felix wears a different, astonishing and spectacular costume in each scene. She really is fantastically beautiful and the allure is enhanced by the fact that the kneeling goddess of the title is a full-size nude sculpture of her. I have been hoping for more of her films to be subtitled before I die, and believe she deserves greater worldwide recognition as an outstanding beauty and melodramatic actress. 7/10