Sor Ye Ye

Sor Ye Ye is a 1967 musical film. The movie is a co-production between Spain and Mexico, starring Hilda Aguirre, Manuel Gil and Enrique Guzmán. The movie is loosely based on the novel La hermana San Sulpicio.

Plot

María (Hilda Aguirre) is a young orfant woman who lives with her wealthy aunt (Margot Cottens). María uses to sing in a night club along with her friends (who have a rock band named "Los Yakis Voladores"), and enjoys the night with them. One of her friends, Ernesto (Enrique Guzmán), is in love with her, although she doesn't seem to share the same feelings towards him. In fact, her multiple existential questions and a strange emptyness she feels in her life make her suddenly decide entering in a convent as a novice, breaking Ernesto's heart. However, with her happy, open and rebel nature, she doesn't seem to accustom herself to the life at the convent, and she has bigger problems with the novice headmistress, who uses to chastise her trying to lead her in the right direction. At the convent, which also works as a hospital for children, she meets a doctor (Manuel Gil) and she doesn't along with him because of the contrast between their personalities, although they have a mutual liking and respect in their own way.

Meanwhile, the convent is going through finantial difficulties, and the nuns barely have enough to feed the children, so they are forced to suffer hunger themselves. María fixes the situation getting a "voluntary" donation from her aunt to supply the convent with food. Her aunt flew into a rage and demanded her to look for money elsewhere. And they desperately need money, first to operate a blind child, and then to prevent the closure of the convent itself. María decides, after asking permission from mother superior and the bishop, to go as a singer to the Sanremo Music Festival trying to win the first prize and the money to save the convent forever. However, she will have to compete there with Ernesto, who also wants to win the competition, and meanwhile, it seems that the doctor's feelings towards her are getting stronger, and María has increasing doubts about her religious vocation...

Controversy

At the time of release, Hilda Aguirre was introduced as the main and only star of the film and as the song performer. Soon, that was proven to be false, because the singing voice was performed by a then unknown Estela Núñez, who at the time was forbidden to reveal she was the singer, and she was also forbidden to sing the songs in public. However, a couple of years later, Estela Núñez rose to stardom in Mexico, and later Enrique Guzmán revealed in an interview that Estela Núñez was the real singer of the film.^[1]

References

External links

• Sor Ye Ye at the Internet Movie Database