Gael García Bernal nails his best role in years, giving a performance steeped in cheeky humor, resilience and radical self-belief — not to mention some amazingly nimble moves — as groundbreaking lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz in Cassandro. Seasoned documentarian Roger Ross Williams, who profiled Armendáriz in 2016 for the Amazon series The New Yorker Presents, makes an assured transition into narrative features with this entertaining biopic, which doubles as a gorgeous depiction of mother-son love and an exhilarating exploration of fearless queer identity in a macho environment.
While Williams (Life, Animated) and co-screenwriter David Teague (who adapted Ta-Nehesi Coates’ Between the World and Me for HBO) slightly fumble the ending, this is a film with enormous heart, vivid immersion into its culturally specific milieu and celebratory admiration for its flamboyant subject, images of whom both in and out of the ring grace the end credits. It should prove popular with both LGBTQ...
While Williams (Life, Animated) and co-screenwriter David Teague (who adapted Ta-Nehesi Coates’ Between the World and Me for HBO) slightly fumble the ending, this is a film with enormous heart, vivid immersion into its culturally specific milieu and celebratory admiration for its flamboyant subject, images of whom both in and out of the ring grace the end credits. It should prove popular with both LGBTQ...
- 1/21/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mexico’s beloved actress Veronica Castro hits the big screen in Cuando Sea Joven along with Natasha Dupeyron (Casa de Flores) playing her 22-year-old self. The comedy is a wholesome good time for the entire family, especially for your abuelitas. The swapping lives plot has been done to death but this one brings a few surprises and lots of charm.
- 9/26/2022
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
Mexican actress Natasha Dupeyron stars in the comedy Cuando Sea Joven as the young version of Mexican icon Veronica Castro. For her role, the actress and singer had to learn to sing bolero style. CineMovie chats about her experience on the film, and she recalls the time when she worked as a very young child with Talia in the novela, Maria la del Barrio. ...
- 9/23/2022
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
The Final Season of the Mexican Netflix Original comedy series "The House of Flowers", narrated by Claudette Maille and directed by Manolo Caro, stars Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Sheryl Rubio, Paco León, Sawandi Wilson, Juan Pablo Medina, Arturo Ríos, Claudette Maillé, Lucas Velázquez, Sofía Sisniega, and Luis de la Rosa, streaming April 23, 2020 on Netflix:
"...the dysfunctional upper-class 'De la Mora' family, owners of a prestigious flower shop are thrown into chaos by the suicide of the long-time mistress. of patriarch 'Ernesto'.
"The revelation of the affair -and Ernesto's illegitimate daughter— are just the first plot twists in a series of secrets that begin unraveling around matriarch 'Virginia' and her children 'Paulina', 'Elena' and Julián..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The House of Flowers"....
"...the dysfunctional upper-class 'De la Mora' family, owners of a prestigious flower shop are thrown into chaos by the suicide of the long-time mistress. of patriarch 'Ernesto'.
"The revelation of the affair -and Ernesto's illegitimate daughter— are just the first plot twists in a series of secrets that begin unraveling around matriarch 'Virginia' and her children 'Paulina', 'Elena' and Julián..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The House of Flowers"....
- 4/24/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Headed by Alberto Müffelmann and Gerardo Gatica, Mexican indie production house Panorama Global has boarded Luis Javier Henaine’s feature “Desaparecer del todo,” a Moonlight Pictures production co-produced with Pablo Zimbron’s Varios Lobos.
The supernatural thriller, based on true events, explores witchcraft in Mexico through the eyes of a tabloid crime photographer.
Varios Lobos and Panorama previously co-produced Henaine’s popular comedy “Ready to Mingle,” and it’s a relationship Müffelmann was eager to rekindle.
“It is not just a business thing either,” he elaborated. “We understand one another well in a creative manner as well as for the economic and financial aspects. We work hand-in-hand. I think we’ve grown together. They came to us as a smaller company, but they are growing at the same time that we are.”
Also announced at Los Cabos, “Moonwalker,” is co-directed by Rodrigo Guardiola (“Zoé: Panoramas”) and Gabriel Nuncio (SXSW player “Cumbres”) of production house Bengala,...
The supernatural thriller, based on true events, explores witchcraft in Mexico through the eyes of a tabloid crime photographer.
Varios Lobos and Panorama previously co-produced Henaine’s popular comedy “Ready to Mingle,” and it’s a relationship Müffelmann was eager to rekindle.
“It is not just a business thing either,” he elaborated. “We understand one another well in a creative manner as well as for the economic and financial aspects. We work hand-in-hand. I think we’ve grown together. They came to us as a smaller company, but they are growing at the same time that we are.”
Also announced at Los Cabos, “Moonwalker,” is co-directed by Rodrigo Guardiola (“Zoé: Panoramas”) and Gabriel Nuncio (SXSW player “Cumbres”) of production house Bengala,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Season 2 of the Mexican Netflix Original comedy series "The House of Flowers", narrated by Claudette Maille, is directed by Manolo Caro, starring Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Sheryl Rubio, Paco León, Sawandi Wilson, Juan Pablo Medina, Arturo Ríos, Claudette Maillé, Lucas Velázquez, Sofía Sisniega, and Luis de la Rosa. streaming October 18, 2019 on Netflix:
"...the dysfunctional upper-class 'De la Mora' family, owners of a prestigious flower shop are thrown into chaos by the suicide of the long-time mistress. of patriarch 'Ernesto'.
"The revelation of the affair -and Ernesto's illegitimate daughter— are just the first plot twists in a series of secrets that begin unraveling around matriarch 'Virginia' and her children 'Paulina', 'Elena' and Julián..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The House of Flowers"....
"...the dysfunctional upper-class 'De la Mora' family, owners of a prestigious flower shop are thrown into chaos by the suicide of the long-time mistress. of patriarch 'Ernesto'.
"The revelation of the affair -and Ernesto's illegitimate daughter— are just the first plot twists in a series of secrets that begin unraveling around matriarch 'Virginia' and her children 'Paulina', 'Elena' and Julián..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The House of Flowers"....
- 10/15/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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