Pretendiendo (Ugly Me)

• Disillusioned after learning of her boyfriend s infidelity and being fired from her job, Amanda (Barbara Mori) a beauty and talented architect decides to start a new life transforming herself into someone completely different to escape from love. But, when she meets Marcelo (Marcelo Mazzarello) a womanizer, she decides to teach him some manners as Elena. But living a double life is much harder tha

For nearly a year, Consuelo has been obsessed with a man who visits her in her dreams â€" a blue prince who does not exist, according to her friends. Richard has been suffering from nightmares in which a young attractive woman seduces him and then tries to kill him. He swears he doesn’t know her. Slowly the dream-like world invades reality and both end up face to face, separated only by mirrored glass in a police station. What happens next will blow your mind.LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO - DVD MovieBase! d on the novel by Jaime Bayly, La Mujer de Mi Hermano is as juicy and melodramatic as a television soap opera. Director Ricardo de Montreuil opens the film depicting the dull marriage between young, gorgeous Zoe (Barbara Mori) and wealthy entrepreneur, Ignacio (Christian Meier). Their modernist home and glamorous lifestyle appeals to the sensibility of their hip Mexico City friends, but their non-existent sex life forces Zoe to seek friendship in Ignacio's poor, artistic brother, Gonzalo (Manolo Cardona). As Gonzalo and Zoe grow closer, Ignacio, enraged by jealousy, tries in vain to cover up his latent homosexuality, which is the root of his marital problems. When Ignacio discovers that Zoe is pregnant as a result of her infidelity, they all call a truce: Ignacio agrees to father the child, Gonzalo agrees to stay away from Zoe, and Zoe agrees to allow Ignacio to sleep with men. Far from realistic, La Mujer de Mi Hermano's shallow characters' sexual escapades! are the only interesting aspect of the film. The movie's sens! ationali stic glimpse into a wealthy Mexican family's business, at its best, harkens back to the inherent decadence of Dangerous Liasons or any other story about a love triangle between family members. With clean, crisp cinematography, this modern rendition of a strict taboo provides temporary entertainment but lacks sustenance.-- Trinie Dalton

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Disillusioned after learning of her boyfriends infidelity and being fired from her job, Amanda Barbara Mori a beauty and talented architect decides to start a new life transforming herself into someone completely different to ! escape from love. But, when she meets Marcelo Marcelo Mazzarel! lo a wom anizer, she decides to teach him some manners as Elena. But living a double life is much harder than she could have imagined. Pretendiendo brings back the Romantic Comedy genre to Latin film productions.
Interview with Barbara Mori, Scene selections, English subtitles.