Trotacalles/ Streetwalker (Matilde Landeta, Mexico, 1951)

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/09/11/streetwalker-trotacalles-matilde-landeta-mexico-1951/ A female perspective on sex and marriage evoking a great mistrust of the social construction of romantic love. Truly radical for its time, in the way that it so clearly positions marriage as equivalent to prostitution, and makes husbands equivalents to pimps. The third film directed my Matilde Landeta, who had to fight the director's guild in order to be allowed to direct at all, and who would not direct another film after this one for another forty years. A film to see.