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Analysis Of Danz�n

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Danzón (1991) is a film directed by Maria Navarro, a Mexican director. According to Navarro, this film is about a journey taken to look for the Mexican identity. This film is part of Navarro’s repertoire of films about a woman, Julia Solórzano, who goes through some form of distress and ends up finding herself. The film, Danzón is centered around Julia Solórzano, a middle-aged single mother of a 15-year old girl, working as a telephone receptionist, who searched for her dancing partner Carmelo. Julia leaves her daughter and home and embarks a journey from Mexico City to the port of Veracruz as her personal odyssey. The trip turns out to be more a quest of self-discovery than a search for a friend.
Danzón is a ballroom dance of Afro-Cuban origin from the city of Matanzas close to La Habana. For Julia, dancing is more than just a pastime, it is the highlight of her life. She greatly enjoys the strict codes of conduct prescribed by Danzón and in particular the formal respect with which her regular dance partner, Carmelo, treats her. For instance, when she was invited to dance by a younger man, she refused him, rejects him, commenting to her friend Silvia that a woman should never dance with a younger partner.
In Danzon, a scene closes to the end shows how Julia decides to act outside the conventions of a women getting involved with a younger man. She decided to take Ruben to her room in the ramshackle hotel. Julia and Ruben enter the lobby of the hotel, and Julia starts

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