A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her ...

This 1944 film is said to be the key work of the Mexican cinema’s “poetic realist” period. Dolores del Rio stars as an Indian woman who allows her face, but not her body, to be used in a nude portrait ...