The Queen of the Night
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Alberto Estrella · Alejandra Montoya · Alex Cox · Ana Ofelia Murguía · Arturo Alegro · Blanca Guerra · Juan Carlos Colombo · Marta Aura · Patricia Reyes Spíndola · Roberto Sosa · Arturo Ripstein · Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Studios & networks
El Tenampa Filmworks · Entertainment Artists · Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica · Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano · Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía · Les Films du Nopal · Producciones Amaranta · Ultra Films · Universidad de Guadalajara