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Overview
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 7, 1994
- Original language
- Spanish
- Production
- Ultra Films,Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía,Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica,Producciones Amaranta,Universidad de Guadalajara,Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano,Entertainment Artists,El Tenampa Filmworks,Les Films du Nopal
- Cast
- Patricia Reyes Spíndola,Alberto Estrella,Blanca Guerra,Ana Ofelia Murguía,Alex Cox,Arturo Alegro,Alejandra Montoya,Marta Aura,Roberto Sosa,Juan Carlos Colomboand 11 more
- Director
- Arturo Ripstein
- Writer
- Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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