18 - 23 September 2007 Amsterdam
De Balie | Melkweg | Studio K | UvA
El sexo fuerte
The stronger sex

Emilio Gómez Muriel
Mexico | 1945 | 35mm

Thursday 21 September
22.00 hrs, Melkweg Cinema

"This film was commissioned by the Kingdom of Eden and is an addition to the true universal story depicting the events that shook the world in the first years of the atomic age," states the voice-over at the beginning of this film. After a shipwreck, Adán, a cattle rancher from the highlands of Jalisco, and his friend Curro the Spaniard come upon the Kingdom of Eden-a land ruled by beautiful amazons who have men at their beck and call. Queen Eva XLV falls in love with Adán and, to win him over, decides to follow the customs of his far-off, backward homeland: Mexico. After drinking several shots of tequila, she serenades/she has a group of musicians serenade him.
 
Madmex: El futuro más acá
El sexo fuerte is part of the retrospective Madmex: El futuro más acá. A unique cycle of hardly seen abroad cult science-fiction films from the 40’s until the 60’s.