Casi divas (2008)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Issa López

Writers:

Ignacio Darnaude (original idea)
Issa López (writer)

Release Date:

11 April 2008 (Mexico)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others...

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Patricia Llaca	...	Eva
Julio Bracho	...	Alejandro
Maya Zapata	...	Francisca
Ana Layevska	...	Ximena
Daniela Schmidt	...	Yesenia
Diana Garcia	...	Catalina
Mónica Huarte	...	Karen Trigo
Darío T. Pie	...	Jurado
Daniel Figueroa	...	Jonathan Armando
Ianis Guerrero	...	Osiris
Gustavo Sánchez Parra	...	Satán
Uriel del Toro	...	Conductor
Pedro Izquierdo	...	Adrián
Adrian Alonso	...	Patricks
Keiko Durán	...	Guiomar Lizárraga

Also Known As:

Road to Fame (USA) (literal English title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature sexual content, language and thematic material.

Runtime:

Argentina:107 min (DVD version)

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #45355)

Filming Locations:

Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico

A satire of what we know as Mexican

Im from Ciudad Juarez, the place where Catalina lives (where women are killed O_o).

It is true that all the characters are in the stereotype of each place, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Ciudad Juarez, Nezahualcóyotl. But, in fact, almost everything in the movie is stereotyped: Clothes, what happens in the TV studios, our government, and lots more.

The accent of the girl from Juarez was TOTALLY FALSE. I was thinking "Who the H*ll in Juarez speaks like that???". It is also fun to see that all the city is transformed into a complete desert, without any building O_o. There are A LOT of places that represents wonderfully the city, and Issa López used some scrubs, desert, sand and cactus instead (I haven't seen a real cactus in the city... oh! I did! there was one of 3" tall in an office)

The movie goes directly to all the Mexican discriminated minorities: homosexuals, natives, poor, etcetera. If we try to see the movie as the identical copy of the reality, it will surely fail.

BUT, I as a Mexican had a lot of fun watching at this movie. This is because, even though it is stereotyped, we can recognize some national flaws. We need to recognize that not all the movies have to be educational. This is, (even if we like or not) a way Mexicans can laugh a little about their own problems, in which a catharsis can be done, and we can relief all our stressed society