{"id":22233,"date":"2016-09-07T23:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22233"},"modified":"2016-09-07T23:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:37:55","slug":"beauties-of-the-night-2016-toronto-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/beauties-of-the-night-2016-toronto-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauties of the Night (2016) [Toronto International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beautiesofthenight\"<\/a>This film documents the rise to stardom, fall, and aging of some of Mexico\u2019s most famous showgirls.\u00a0 These women did it all, they sang, danced, acted, modeled, etc. They were revered by armies of fans and had it all.\u00a0 Lyn May, Olga Breeskin, Princesa Yamal, Rossy Mendoza, and Wanda Seux discuss their rise to fame, their lives, and their dreams.<\/p>\n

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Writer\/director Maria Jose Cuevas uses television and archive footage as well as personal photos and new interviews with the beauties to show the glamorous side of their lives in the spotlight and then where they are now.\u00a0 Each beauty is allowed to speak of her experience unrestrained and they confess to the joys of being a showgirl as well as the difficulties.\u00a0 They are shown as characters but also as real human beings with feelings and flaws.<\/p>\n

These showgirls talk openly leading and honestly leading to a very real, captivating documentary.\u00a0 We see their lives as they are, with sadness and joy.\u00a0 Mexican showgirls are not exactly like their American counterparts.\u00a0 They do not solely exist on stage and in cities like Las Vegas or Reno; they are more like a cross between American showgirls, pin-ups, and pop stars.\u00a0 This documentary shows this and their fame levels with arena tours and huge crowds.\u00a0 During their heydays, they were like the Mexican Luchadores in that they were the extreme image of femininity, with great curves and beauty, with created characters, cultivated personalities, depending on popularity and their public. Comparatively, Luchadores are the extreme image of masculinity with strong bodies who can take on anyone, created characters, cultivated personalities, also depending on popularity and their public.\u00a0 They both are exaggerations of themselves and for the show.\u00a0 \u201cBeauties of the Night\u201d also shows what happens when the curtain falls and the stage lights are turned off.<\/p>\n

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Each of the ladies gets her time to shine in this doc.\u00a0 Lyn May talks about what she loves most and how she\u2019s currently happy with the love of her life.\u00a0 Rossy Mendoza discusses her love life and is very candid on what she wanted and got from man and why she made the choices she did.\u00a0 Olga Breeskin discusses how things have majorly changed for her for the best.\u00a0 Princesa Yamal talks about the arrest and wrongful accusations that killed her career and what is most important to her now.\u00a0 Wanda Seux is the one that hits the hardest, she may not have much money but she makes the most of it, dedicating her life to dogs and battling cancer.<\/p>\n

Seux has perhaps the most powerful moment in the whole film when she removes her wig to reveal the real Wanda, Amanda, at her Walk of Fame dedication.\u00a0 This moment hits possibly the hardest of all in a film with plenty strong, hard hitting moments.\u00a0 The other ladies also have their moments, but Seux is the lady that grabs you and doesn\u2019t let go.\u00a0 She\u2019s a strong woman fighting, figuratively and literally, for her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeauties of the Night\u201d is an emotionally charged, informative documentary about a group of strong ladies who did what they could to survive in a career of their choice and became icons in their country.\u00a0 It shows the glamorous life they led but also the darker sides and their realities as aging showgirls who may not be ready to get go of the spotlight completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This film documents the rise to stardom, fall, and aging of some of Mexico\u2019s most famous showgirls.\u00a0 These women did it all, they sang, danced, acted, modeled, etc. They were revered by armies of fans and had it all.\u00a0 Lyn May, Olga Breeskin, Princesa Yamal, Rossy Mendoza, and Wanda Seux discuss their rise to fame, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120,138,292,367,469,766],"class_list":["post-22233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-b","tag-biography","tag-documentary","tag-foreign","tag-history","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22235,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233\/revisions\/22235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}