In the Palm of Your Hand
En la palma de tu mano
Synopsis
Jaime Karin is an astrologer, fortune teller and a scam artist, who uses his wife who works in an elegant beauty salon, to find out information on future wealthy clients.
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Awards & Festivals
Ariel Awards (Mexico)
1952 | 8 wins including: Golden Ariel
1952 | 3 nominations including: Best Actress in a Minor Role
Critics reviews
Self-Styled Siren
En la Palma de Tu Mano (In the Palm of Your Hand, 1951) is the longest and most ambitious film of the bunch… The film augments Mexico City with jaw-dropping sets. Karin’s office mimics an observatory, the domed ceiling adorned with big magic-sounding words and twinkling stars.
Farran Smith Nehme
July 26, 2015
The Life Sentence
The finest film in the series is In the Palm of Your Hand, an entrancingly sensuous drama of deception, seduction, and murder. Director Roberto Gavaldón wrote the velvety, ambiguous script with his frequent partner José Revueltas. Its pulp poetry is salted with wit; the macabre hilarity of a scene where an adulterous couple gets a flat tire while transporting a corpse in their trunk is worthy of Hitchcock.
Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2015
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