Rosas blancas para mi hermana negra (1970) User Reviews (2)

Two friends are confronted for her racial differences while her daughters are dying.

[Big Daddy-4 · 5/10 · 11 December 2000]

Laura (a white woman) and Angustias (a black woman) are confronted when Alicia (Laura's daughter) falls in love of a black guy, and Laura dissuades to her daughter and her friend to finish this romance but unexpectly Roberta (Angustia's daughter) dies run over for a car and by the way, Alicia needs urgently a heart transplant and the only donator available is Roberta.

Can Laura convince her friend Angustias to authorize the operation and finally forget their racial differences?

Memorable, not necessarily in a good way

[herrgaman · 4/10 · 4 August 2019]

This is a decent movie, for a melodrama, and the racial views from that era in Mexico -- at least the ones the movie is willing to discuss, unlike the film's almost total absence of indigenous Mexicans -- can be interesting. There are musical numbers which drag on but must have been popular and expected. (It's a shame that underground American soul legend Steve Flanagan doesn't get a number.) Maybe the most memorable sequence is a long, incredibly bizarre, basically silent Chaplin-esque routine by Libertad Lamarque in which she appears to have cloned herself, portraying multiple characters in "humorous" roles, all to momentarily distract and amuse her daughter. Even for what is essentially a feature-length soap opera, that segment is weird.