LA TIGRESA
dir. Glauco del Mar, 1969
85 mins. United States.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - MIDNGHT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 - MIDNIGHT
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - 10 PM

Glauco del Mar’s penultimate film LA TIGRESA is perhaps his most accomplished, yet far less popular than his apogee, 1975’s TONO BICICLETA. It is in this bewilderingly feminist redemption narrative that we meet Patricia, a young woman living with her father, who is mercilessly bullied by her schoolmates, assaulted and raped in her home and is left with no resolve. Her alcoholic good-for-nothing father is killed during her attack. After inheriting some money and recovering her personal power, she sets off to avenge every single last person that did her wrong - making her list, and checking it twice. This classic redemption tale combines the amazing Perla Faith a legendary vedette with espiritismo, folklore, Miguel Poventud’s jangly guitar boleros, corrupt cops, and entrancing Harlem landscapes.

Part of LA BODEGA SOLD DREAMS.