Carmita
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Release Date
February 22, 2013Runtime
80 minGenres
DocumentaryDirected by
Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel CárdenasScreenplay by
Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia GuzmánLanguage
Spanish; CastilianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Similar movies
Un jour en France
August 17, 2008Una pasión llamada Clara Lair
January 2, 1996Anatomy of a Dress
October 28, 201413 Related Sewing Machines
March 4, 2011L'oiseau de la nuit
April 24, 2015Underage
January 1, 1982The Black Belt
March 12, 2016Cheer Up
May 1, 2016Around the Village Green
May 20, 1937Repare Bem
January 1, 2012Em todo canto
January 1, 2011Varda by Agnès
March 28, 201911 Freundinnen
May 24, 2013The Sea
May 7, 1933Julia, toda en mí
July 20, 2002Small Small Thing
April 6, 2013Tax Shelter Terrors
December 31, 2017For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq
January 1, 2007Full Tilt Boogie
July 31, 1998In Paris Parks
June 4, 1954