| 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 |
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]
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.
The film was released on cinemas for sixteen weeks. [1]
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]