ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Daniel Handler

Co-presented with The Roxie and ZYZZYVA

For the last ZYZZYVA Movie Night of the year, Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Aventurera (Adventuress), widely considered the greatest film in Mexico’s singular rumbera genre, introduced by award-winning author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket). Aventurera is a pitch-black film noir punctuated by Afro-Caribbean musical numbers, starring dancer-singer Ninón Sevilla as a proper young lady who, within ten minutes, witnesses a parent’s suicide, is sold into prostitution, and transformed into a nightclub sensation. Through these hairpin turns, director Alberto Gout re-writes the rules of female portrayal in Mexican cinema through a razor-sharp indictment of bourgeois society. The screening will be followed by a short interview with Daniel Handler about the film. Co-hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors at 5:30pm for book sales/signing. $16

Following the screening, there will be a separately ticketed holiday party next door at 518 Valencia, starting at 8:00pm. Tickets for the holiday party will go on sale October 1st.

​​​Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books

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