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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It felt as I were slogging through the first four-fifths of the movie because I couldn't dismiss a feeling of anxiousness caused by not being able to figure out what the conflict was that was being resolved. It wasn't until the very end, when Julia returned from Vera Cruz that I accepted that the slog (Julia's journey of discovery and my sitting through it) was worthwhile. Ostensibly looking for Carmelo, the dancing partner that abandoned her, Julia becomes despondent in Mexico City so she takes a leave of absence from her job as a telephone operator, finds someone to look after her teenage daughter, and goes to Vera Cruz to chase down a sketchy lead. In Vera Cruz she stays in a harbor-side flop house among prostitutes and a disinterested but doting innkeeper, is befriended by a helpful transvestite and finally succumbs to the beauty of a younger tug boat captain. She returns to Mexico City having found herself instead of Carmelo.

I just saw Danzon at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery, which was selected as part of the theme for Milestones in Mexican Cinema. It was a wonderful, simple story about a woman who's love of dance forces her to realize her independence.Danzon director María Rojo stars as Julia Solórzano, a timid working class woman (just to show you the cultural and economic differences between the states and Mexico, it was 1989 when this movie was released, and they were talking about the "modernization plan" and the development of 'long distance telephone'). At night, she and the girls from work go to the popular Mexican night spots and spend the night dancing the Danzón. When her Danzón partner mysteriously disappears without word (although there are several rumors), she feels completely helpless. Dancing is what she loves to do, and with Carmelo (her dance partner) gone, she falls into a state of disrepair. Julia takes a trip to Veracruz, where Carmelo was from (this being where the majority of the film takes place), and looks for him. There, she meets several interesting people, and her friendship forces her to rethink things about herself, namely her independence. Danzón is a wonderful, funny, and simple story, qualities that I had appreciated more after having seen the pretentious Adaptation. There is something about Julia and the townspeople that are so interesting, and so engaging, even though the point is so simplistic. Among the best characters in the film were Carmen Salinas as Doña Tí and Tito Vasconcelos as Susy (Julia's cross dressing friend who is perhaps the funniest character in the whole movie). I recommend seeing it.

It´s a great movieI saw this movie 13 years ago in a premiere in the former cinema picasso, from then and now I see over and over again this movie.This movie talks the life of julia (maria rojo) his behavior in the job (operator phone) his daughter, and his principal passion the dance calls "DANZON".Every wednesday she goes to dance with a friend and she meets with his partner in dance carmelo, One day he don´t return to dance and then julia are looking for him (she thinks he has a problem with the mexican laws and he runs away to veracruz), she´s sad by the notice and she runs to veracruz for make a search for him.In this movie we looking in a frame the old mexican rairoad calls "EL MEXICANO" and all the city of veracruz.She meets new people, new friends (specially a man dressed like a woman)a hooker, the owner of the hotel and a younger man when she discover she´s still atractive by the men (the russian guy, carmelo, the young man).The movie take´s a trip in the life of julia before and after and finish when she leaves veracruz and meet again carmelo and they dance If you have the oportunitty to see the movie in tv or dvd or vhs SEE IT because it´s the few mexican movies made perfectlymy qualification 10/10

The main character goes on a long journey to find Carmelo, her danzon partner, after he fails to show up for their weekly dancing date. She believes that dancing is the only bright spot in her life. On her journey, she makes new friends and has an affair with a younger man. She returns to find Carmelo at home, and realizes that she doesn't need him the way she thought she did. Julia's life has an excitement even without this man.It was a good film. I watched a subtitled version which was helpful but as always you lose alittle of the content that way.