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Roberto Gavaldón (June 7, 1909 in Jiménez, Chihuahua – September 4, 1986 in Mexico City) was a Mexican film director. Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico.
Roberto Gavaldón (Jiménez, Chihuahua; 7 de junio de 1909 - Ciudad de México; 4 de septiembre de 1986) fue un director de cine mexicano.
Roberto Gavaldón (1909-1986) was a prominent and influential filmmaker of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. He specialized in melodramas, social dramas and historical epics, and won several awards and nominations.
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- Jiménez, Chihuahua, Mexico
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- Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Roberto Gavaldón fue uno de los cineastas más activos y exitosos de México en el siglo XX, con un estilo academicista y melodramático. Dirigió a las estrellas más prestigiosas del cine nacional y colaboró con el exilio español, pero también fue criticado por su formalismo y su distanciamiento.
Dec 14, 2016 · Having made his name in the 1940s as a master of noir, Roberto Gavaldón turned in the ’50s to the conflicts and complexes of the male psyche. While melodrama is often defined as a woman’s genre, the tradition of male melodrama – in Hollywood and elsewhere – is surprisingly rich and complex.
Apr 27, 2019 · Camped out somewhere in that landscape is Roberto Gavaldón, the subject of a thirteen-film retrospective now playing at MoMA. Best known for directing urban melodramas that borrowed freely from their northern film noir cousins, Gavaldón was a highly accomplished craftsman.
Apr 30, 2019 · The film series “Roberto Gavaldón: Night Falls in Mexico” at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) showcases the rarely screened signature achievement of the Western hemisphere’s second-most-robust film industry in the decades surrounding World War II.
