Damiana y los hombres

Damiana y Los Hombres(1967) is a Mexican soap opera made as a big budget movie. The title means "Damiana and the Men". Mercedes Carreno portrays Damiana, a girl from a rural area who has to choose between a career as a supermodel or life with a guy she loves. Damiana y Los Hombres is "really good" compared to bad, vile Mexican movies made in the 1980's. There are some fun scenes such as Carreno dancing in her underpants to something that sounds like a Canned Heat cover band. Carreno does appear topless in the film for six seconds! How did they get that past the censors? The film is soaked with 1960's pop culture. You can see a Donald Duck LP in the background. This film may have worked better as a twenty episode Mexican soap opera on TV. Damiana y Los Hombres is no masterpiece, but it's worth a look if you enjoy Mercedes Carreno and her sensuality.

Yes this is the perfect example. DAMIANA Y LOS HOMBRES should've worked better as a soap opera. The plot is very simple.. A very poor girl gets the attention of a famous and rich publicist that offers her a chance to be her next beauty for his company. This poor but beautiful girl is Damiana (Carreño). While being in the city she meets a rich man and starts dating him, that changes her life as she had a formal boyfriend in her poor town.

The point is that Damiana ends up winning a very important beauty contest and lives happy forever. Mexican cinema detractors find this movie terrible! I second them. This was the time when Mexican cinema was in it's peak of mediocrity.

Meche Carreño is the best about this movie. She looked very sensual and I guess she could act.

"Welcome to Fright Night!...for real"

This is most like of a telenovela that displays the reality of a poor girl that breaks into fashion after she's discovered by an agent and his company. Then, this woman after getting her dream work, meets with a rich pimp that tries to get her in his company. So, it's a conflict of interests that deal with work, sex, passion, and well, sex.

Plus it's a new change for our lead female character's life because now she changed her previous lifestyle that dealt with poverty and no luxuries.

The ending is in the likes of any Thalía or Verónica Castro novela: she wins the most important beauty contest and stays with the rich one. Mexican cinema reached incredible levels of mediocrity and this is a prime example.

On the plus side, we men can be satisfied with Meche Carreño's incredible sex appeal and sensuality.

Go Meche, I'm your fan.