Mentiras (English: "Lies") is a 1986 Mexican drama film directed by Abel Salazar and Alberto Mariscal and starring Lupita D'Alessio, Juan Ferrara and Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.[1]
| Mentiras | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Abel Salazar Alberto Mariscal |
| Screenplay by | Fernando Galiana |
| Story by | Fernando Galiana |
| Produced by | Carlos Amador Fernando de Fuentes |
| Starring | Lupita D'Alessio Juan Ferrara Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo |
| Cinematography | José Ortiz Ramos |
| Edited by | Jesús Paredes |
| Music by | Guillermo Méndez Guiú |
Production company | Producciones Carlos Amador |
| Distributed by | Televicine |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
Plot edit
A singer for commercials (D'Alessio) looking for her big break manages to attract the attention of a producer (Ferrara) while making friends with a down-on-his-luck musician (Ortiz de Pinedo). Falling in love and trouble seem inevitable.
Cast edit
- Lupita D'Alessio as Lupita Montero
- Juan Ferrara as Alvaro Ibáñez
- Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo as Enrique Galván
- Flor Procuna as Angélica
- Rafael Amador
- Humberto Elizondo as Don Gabriel
- Diana Golden as Reporter (as Diana Gold)
Release edit
The film was released on cinemas for sixteen weeks.[1]
Reception edit
Cinémas d'Amérique Latine said that the film "adorned itself with an aesthetic worthy of the most common of soap operas".[2] Some reviews noted the film's feminist themes, with Debate feminista holding it as an example of a film that conveys a narrative of "feminidad odiahombres" ("man-hating femininity"),[3] and Jorge Ayala Blanco in La disolvencia del cine mexicano: entre lo popular y lo exquisito saying of D'Alessio's character that "the fiery Lupita is a typically middle-class suburban phenomenon".[4]
Some reviews also described the film as a star vehicle for Lupita D'Alessio, but that it failed in that task. Ayala Blanco said, "Mentiras becomes, within the Mexican residual cinema with massive prefabricated success, a television by-product whose primary function is the expansion (failed), extension (diminished), applause (deaf), translation to celluloid (vain), and reinforcement (tautological) of a character produced by TV that does not necessarily have to be operative outside its scope.",[4] and Dicine magazine would refer to the film as "that mess called Mentiras with which Lupita D'Alessio tried to inject oxygen into her devalued career".[5]
References edit
- ^ a b Amador, María Luisa; Ayala Blanco, Jorge (2006). Cartelera cinematográfica, 1980–1989 (in Spanish). UNAM. p. 413. ISBN 970-32-3605-7.
- ^ Cinémas d'Amérique Latine 2000 (in Spanish). Presses Univ. du Mirail. 2000. p. 65. ISBN 2-85816-506-8.
- ^ Debate feminista (in Spanish). Vol. 5. Epiqueya, A.C. 1992. p. 322.
- ^ a b Ayala Blanco, Jorge (1991). La disolvencia del cine mexicano: entre lo popular y lo exquisito (in Spanish). Grijalbo. p. 476. ISBN 970-05-0132-9.
- ^ Dicine, Temas 43-45 (in Spanish). Dicine. 1992. p. 20.
