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Casi Divas

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I totally LOVED the movie, it's surprising, adventurous, smart, deep, and very funny! not the kind of cookie cutter american romantic comedie, in one word: brilliant!

I saw this film in the theatre and LOVED it!! It looks like a comedy (and much of it is), but it is so much more. It is funny, dramatic, full of surprises, thoroughly entertaining, and very moving. It also has wonderful acting, great cinematography, and beautiful music by Hans Zimmer! A DON'T MISS FILM!!

This movie was so funny.

If you like catfights & drama, then this is the movie.

It tells how there's a casting call for a soap opera star who isn't getting the movie role.
Girls from all over Mexico show up however they can.
Let the fights begin.

Suprisingly good, better than expected. Its funny, sad, deep, and entertaining. I had rented it, I liked it so much that I bought it. I really loved the characters, the indigenous girl from oaxaca who has to deal with racism and discrimination. The girl from juarez who is exploited in a maquiladora, lives in a shanty town, and is seeing her female co workers and friends disappear then found dead and the authorities don't care. The tranny from mexico city, who wants to be a star and loved and accepted as woman, also her family is hilarious. The spoiled rich girl from jalisco, struggling with her weight problems, obssesed with being thin and perfect. I loved them all. I strongly recommend this movie.

Great movie that starts out looking like fluff and end sup being very political and bracing!

In "Casi Divas" ("Almost Divas" "Road to Fame") (2009) Eva is a real diva, a star, whom her producer/lover, Alejandro, wants to replace with a younger woman. Over Eva's dead body! Hundreds of young women in this Mexican, Spanish-language film vie in a contest to be the star of the producer's next blockbuster.
Eva does everything including devious things to blackmail Alejandro into keeping her as his leading diva and his lover. She's a force to be reckoned with.
The movie concentrates on four young women, different types from different backgrounds. One comes from an upper class family, one from a gaggle of misfits, one Francisca (Maya Zapata) from a poor family in Oaxaca with Indian roots. The fourth is a factory worker from Juarez. The rivalry among the girls becomes fierce. A national TV show is used to run the contest, and viewers vote for their choices.
A sub-plot concerns a serial killer who is stalking and killing young women. This only seems to hit home at the end of the film.
The movie at times seems like a soap opera, has some social commentary, and has a real surprise. When the contest is going on, you may feel as if you have traveled this road before.