Victims of Sin
Criterion Collection
Art Direction / Eric Skillman
Victims of Sin (1951) is a hallmark of the golden age of Mexican cinema and one of the very best examples of the cabaretera film, an offshoot of the popular “prostitute melodrama” genre set in cabarets and involving elaborate music and dance sequences. These films often spotlight the Afro-Cuban dance called the rumba, and a rumbera, a female protagonist and figure of escapist fantasy who exhibits her liberation through her sexuality and uninhibited dancing.
