The latest in our series of writers highlighting under-appreciated films is a recommendation for a compassionate Mexican documentary
Goddesses of the stage and the screen, the Mexican vedettes or showgirls of the 1970s and 1980s were the embodiment of the era’s female beauty ideal and versatile talent. They sang, acted, danced and undressed for their clamoring fans night after night with abandon. Leading lives of dazzling opulence, sexual freedom and excessive indulgence, these
Women were rock stars of their day who reveled in their hard-earned success and became timeless.
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