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Film Enamorada (1946)

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Despite its resemblance to a New World version of The Taming of the Shrew, Emilio Fernández's Enamorada (1946) manages more than a rehash of historical circumstance and comedy. With buoyant black-and-white imagery and iconography by Fernández favorite Gabriel Figueroa, the fable-like film also boasts a Mexico in nuevo visión, where gender-bending relations and nascent nationalism are set against the revolution-ravaged landscape. The story is economically concentrated into a romcom-resembling romance between Beatriz (María Félix), the hoity-toity heiress of the wealthiest reactionary in town, and the open-minded and obviously smitten General Reyes. Like Rosie the Riveter, however, the smoldering and strong-willed Beatriz eventually becomes a resolute figure who seems to front an entire nation.

– Jason Jude Chan

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