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A teenager prostituted by her mother falls in love with a sailor who turns out to be her brother.
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Perla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and inveterate poet who would like to make art out of a sordid situation. When "el Marro", a sick sailor stops at the place and falls in love with the girl, the mother tries to cut off that relationship, but fails to do so. Because she knows that they are actually siblings.
"Presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, Woman of the Port is a film by director Arturo Ripstein (The Place Without Limits) that remained unreleased for more than three decades, with only limited screenings in Mexico and abroad. Based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Le Port," the movie tells the story of a young woman who is prostituted by her mother and ends up forming a forbidden relationship with a client who, unbeknownst to her, is her brother. A drama of the typical sordidness of its director, which finally reaches Mexican audiences in restored version."