ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Daniel Handler
Wed, Dec 03
|Roxie Theater
For the last ZYZZYVA Movie Night of the year, Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Aventurera (Adventuress), widely considered the greatest film in Mexico’s singular rumbera genre, introduced by award-winning author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket).
Time & Location
Dec 03, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with The Roxie and ZYZZYVA
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For the last ZYZZYVA Movie Night of the year, Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Aventurera (Adventuress), widely considered the greatest film in Mexico’s singular rumbera genre, introduced by award-winning author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket). Aventurera is a pitch-black film noir punctuated by Afro-Caribbean musical numbers, starring dancer-singer Ninón Sevilla as a proper young lady who, within ten minutes, witnesses a parent’s suicide, is sold into prostitution, and transformed into a nightclub sensation. Through these hairpin turns, director Alberto Gout re-writes the rules of female portrayal in Mexican cinema through a razor-sharp indictment of bourgeois society. The screening will be followed by a short interview with Daniel Handler about the film. Co-hosted by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Doors at 5:30pm for book sales/signing. $16
Following the screening, there will be a separately ticketed holiday party at next door at 518 Valencia, starting at 8:00pm. You can buy tickets…