Patricia Reyes Spíndola
出生 : 1953-07-11, Oaxaca, Mexico
略歴
Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola (born 11 July 1953) is a Mexican actress, director and producer in films, TV series and theatre plays.
She studied to become an actress in several ateliers in Mexico and London. She made her début in the movies in 1972, with El señor de Osanto, and two years later she started working in the Teatro Fru Fru. As an actress, she has worked with directors like Nancy Cárdenas or Arturo Ripstein. She has also worked in famous Mexican telenovelas. She won the Ariel prize for her roles in Los motivos de Luz and La reina de la noche. She has an acting school she runs with her sister, Marta Reyes Spíndola, in the Colonia Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City called M & M Studio, where she also teaches.
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Montserrat
In the microcosm of a private school, the latent traumas of adults coexist with the teenager’s wild search for identity. From somewhere on its walls, travelers could glimpse suggestive ports, but no one finds enough energy to leave the trip. The fruits of the past lay roots that imprison and immobilize those who close their eyes as salvation.
Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when he fails to achieve a leading role in an important play. Facing the dilemma of returning defeated to his home, he accidentally meets Belén in the subway, a spontaneous actress who tells stories or lies in exchange for some coins.
Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.
Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her addiction to marijuana and her pink hair can not get a job anywhere, so she ends up as a drug dealer handing out goods to her neighbor - who is addicted to all kinds of painkillers-, to an actress of soap operas as schizophrenic as a cocaine addict; also going through a swinger couple, a prude housewife, a not so prude nun and a host of characters that will surely make more than one viewer is reflected.
Danae
Salvador is willing to do absolutely anything. Even mutilate, physically and emotionally, in order to retain the woman he is in love with.
When his father passes away, Juan Pablo inherits his guitar. Decided to continue his father's legacy, he abandons his career and becomes a mariachi.
Estela
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.
A romance between the painters and writers: Dr. Atl and Nahui Olin arises in this era, the 20's, while Jose Vasconcelos founded the Ministry of Education and call all the intellectuals of the country for this project. Mr. President Alvaro Obregon, who feels devotion for the intellectuals allows one of the most important cultaral crusades of our history. In this liberal atmosphere where gays, the divorce, the vote for women, began to be accepted, several of our protagonists are given in love within a whirl of ideas, passions, political and ideological propositions.
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Augusto is a 40 year old who fall in love with a younger russian girl that lives at Veracruz, Mexico.
Doña Ruti
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Viuda
Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.
La Sandoval
Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Aurora (as Patricia Reyes Spindola)
In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Madre Superiora
Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.
Mrs. Gonzalez
Dianne travels alone to Mexico in search of her missing sister. Her investigation presents unsettling encounters leading her on a mind-bender as she attempts to unravel the truth.
Victoria
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to El Edén, a male brothel dressed as a gym. Despite the fact that he refuses to return, she, accustomed to achieving what she sets out to do, will use all her weapons to recover what is her own.
Raquel
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
Matilde Kahlo
2003年アカデミー賞6部門ノミネート、最優秀作曲賞ほか2部門を受賞した話題作。18歳の少女フリーダは、バスに乗っていた際に事故に巻き込まれ瀕死の重傷を負ってしまう……。伝説の女性画家、フリーダ・カーロの波乱に満ちた人生を描いた感動の大作。
Conflicted gay man makes contact with the ghost of his boyfriend from teenaged years.
Casting
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
Caiman's Mother
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
Axe Face
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Adela, The Godmother
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
Alejandro and Beto are in love. Their relationship, however, is being seriously tested. Alejandro is HIV+ and becoming more desperate as he finds the drug treatments in Mexico City are not working as he had hoped, and his t-cells continue to plummet. After much anguish, he decides, without input from Beto, that he needs to go to the U.S. for better information, medication and treatment. That decision unleashes havoc for Alejandro as he and Beto fight, slip up and finally reconcile. At the U.S. embassy, Alejandro is denied a visa, which ultimately leads him to try crossing the border illegally.
Jacinta
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Micaela
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Sra. Ruelas
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
Tired of being mistreated by their husbands, Ema (Reyes Spindola), Clotilde (Elizarraras) and Chayo (Orozco) leave their past (children and husbands included) and begin an adventure that will take them to a cavernous cabaret in Guadalajara, a love affair with a hot-blooded young drug dealer and, finally, a popular and well decorated mexican restaurant in downtown L.A. In the middle, the three women will find their respective self-esteem and their true reasons for living.
Lucha Reyes
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.
Ghosts cause a lot of funny and chilling problems to a young couple that recently moved in their house.
A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Tomasa
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Between chargers, noise and improvisedly placed furniture, a couple experiences a violent marital crisis, ignoring that they are observed by many characters that will soon face them with their own demons. Inspired by a work by Vicente Leñero, Gabriel Retes orchestrates a portrait without concessions of the hell of the marriage institution and love chaos, made in video format in 1990 and completed by the filmmaker more than a decade later.
Deifilia
Esposa
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no me maten", flee several men who pursue for killing Colonel Terrones.
Carmen
A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence.
Luz
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Luisa
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading articles from Ricardo Flores Magon in newspaper Regeneration, organize clandestinely and mutiny against the US, owner of the mine, which is refuses to rescue a group of workers trapped by a landslide.
Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.
Eduvigis Dyada
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Directed by Federico Weingartshofer
Virgen Maria
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Gray Thorn
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.
Patricia
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Rosa
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Flora
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Slice-of-life story about the career arcs of five or six boxers who pal around together.
Rosa
Adult brothers compete for pateral affection and for control of the family estate.
A Paralytic woman with telepathy powers enter in the body of her caregiver for take revenge against everyone who hurt her.
Magda
