Laura Ramos Movies
- 2003
Directed by Juan Carlos Tabió, Aunque Estés Lejos (So Far Away) initially centers around Marilyn (Susana Pérez), whose first trip back to Cuba after having spent 30 years in Chicago is marred by the death of the aunt she had planned on visiting. At the funeral, she meets Lazaro (Mijail Mulkay), who isn't so much as concerned about the funeral as he is getting a visa from the nearby American embassy. His pleas are denied, however, and as an attraction develops between him and Marilyn, she is forced to choose between Cuba and the United States. After Marilyn decides to stay in Cuba, her plight is revealed to be a fictional account from scriptwriters Pedro (Barbaro Marin) and Mercedes (Mirta Ibarra), who are desperately trying to sell the project to Cuban-born, Spanish-based actor Alberto (Antonio Valero). After Alberto rejects the idea -- he claims that no one would want to return to Cuba after having lived in America -- he finds himself caught up in subway saxophonist Magda's (Laura Ramos) experience in the controversial nation. Sometime after sharing a romantic night with Magda, he realizes she may actually be his daughter from a long since forgotten affair. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Valero, Mirta Ibarra, (more)
The third installment of director Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez's state-of-Spain trilogy, which began in 1995 with Whispers of Spain (and Portugal). Roguish Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo) lives by himself, eking out a dubious living from gambling money and blackmailing various women who were once his lovers, one of whom is Alicia (Teresa Gimpera). When Caty (Laura Ramos), a would-be athlete, materializes on Juan's doorstep one day claiming to be his daughter by a tryst in Havana 20 years earlier, Juan finds the order of his daily existence thrown into peril. Caty is in search of Spanish residence, and is helped in her quest by Pepe (Juan Echanove), a cop who has recently been left by Juan's other daughter Carmela (Neus Asensi) -- for Tony (Pedro Miguel Martinez), a bisexual hairdresser. The plot twists again when Juan is contacted by Alicia's husband, a sleazy crook by the name of Pozueta (Jesus Bonilla), who wants Juan to go to jail in his place. Pozueta is smitten with Caty and offers to marry her but must get a divorce in order to do so, thus arranges a deal with Juan to record Alicia in bed with her new lover. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
- Starring:
- Juan Luis Galiardo, Laura Ramos, (more)
Alberto Lecchi's Spanish-language docudrama-cum-thriller Operación Fangio travels back to the 1958 Formula One Championship in Cuba, and dramatizes the events surrounding Argentine racecar driver Juan Manuel Fangio's (Dario Grandinetti) abduction by a cadre of violent guerillas. Laura Ramos and Ernesto Tapia co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- 1999
- NR
A wealth of romantic and familial complications face a musician en route to Cuba in the comedy Cuarteto de la Habana. Walther (Ernesto Alterio) is a Spanish jazz musician who gets word from a woman in Havana named Lita (Mirtha Ibarra) that she is his mother, whom he hasn't seen since he was a baby. Walther, excited by the prospect of a family reunion, catches a flight to Cuba, where he meets Segis (Javier Camara), a man who is soon to marry Diana (Laura Ramos). When Walther meets Diana, it's love at first sight, but it turns out there's a hitch -- Diana is Lita's daughter, and though her father was not Walther's father, being half-siblings is still enough to throw a serious spanner into the works. Director Fernando Colomo previously received acclaim for his film The Butterfly Effect. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ernesto Alterio, Mirta Ibarra, (more)
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