Georgette Somohano

Movies

Devil's Mountain
Costume Design
Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
El principio
Wardrobe Designer
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
El amor tiene cara de mujer
Costume Design
The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.
Peach Blossom
Costume Design
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
Rocambole contra las mujeres arpías
Costume Design
Super-detective muscle dude in tights vs a criminal mastermind who doses women with ugly serum to make them commit crimes.
Pedro Paramo
Wardrobe Supervisor
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Viva Maria!
Costumer
Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.
The Golden Cockerel
Costume Supervisor
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
The Exterminating Angel
Costume Design
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
800 Leagues Over the Amazon
Costume Design
Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
Nazarin
Costume Design
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
Death in the Garden
Costume Design
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Mexican Bus Ride
Costume Design
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.