Sol y sombra

⭐ Featured Review

"This is one of the rare silent films that, instead of explaining via too many intertitles, seems to use too few: perhaps if I were more familiar with the original short story it would be easier to follow. The basic plot deals with a bullfighter who takes up with a blonde foreigner and neglects his former interest, a local girl: she in turn is apparently loved silently from afar by a crippled antiquarian, who is perhaps loved by his rescued girl-servant. At any rate, it seems to be the action (through jealousy or in innocence?) of this girl that provokes the final crisis. Musidora plays both t..."