Veronica Merchant Movies

Humor and tragedy mingle in this film, which examines the lives of a handful of people living in a large Mexico City apartment complex. Teresa (Lorena Rojas) has an unexpected encounter with a boy she knew from high school; where she once taunted him as a bookworm, she now finds herself attracted to him sexually. Horacio (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) loses his job, and his wife Eva (Veronica Merchant) responds by demanding a divorce. Josafat (Salvador Garcini) and his wife Ruth (Toni Marcin) are a deeply religious couple who are not sure how to react to their new upstairs neighbors (Cristina Michaus and Odiseo Bichir), who have sex loudly, enthusiastically, and frequently. Celina (Ana Martin) is a prostitute who finds herself attracted to her teenage son Santiago (Jairo Gomez); Santiago, on the other hand, seems uncertain about his sexuality, and sometimes plays peeping Tom with one of the gay men in the building when he isn't trying on Celina's clothes. And elderly Mr. Cano (Jorge Galvan) finds his children rushing to his side after he has a stroke, though they aren't as interested in helping him once they discover he's lost his money and there is no inheritance for them. Corazones Rotos was shown at the 2001 Guadalajara Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The violent lives of Mexican street kids are examined in this intense Mexican social drama that centers upon the friendship between two adolescents. Mauricio has come from Tijuana to Mexico city to visit El Boy. El Boy teaches Mauricio about life in the streets of Mexico's capital. El Boy kills a security guard at a small market and must leave the city and hide out. The opportunistic Mauricio betrays his friend by impersonating El Boy and selling Boy's aunt's mortgage papers to a fence. Still pretending to be El Boy, he then gets involved with a young woman who stays at the property. Unfortunately, El Boy returns and a major confrontation ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

This Mexican drama comprised of three separate intermeshed storylines is centered around a fictionalized modern filmmaker, Juan (Arturo Rios). In the first one, Juan is depressed after his girlfriend left him for another man. He begins having violent fits of anger in his efforts to get her back. In the second one, Juan also tries to deal with his father's death. The viewer is given few details about it, except that it happened on the day 10-year old Juan first saw the ocean. The story's third level focuses upon the screenplay Juan is writing. It is about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and an angel. The angel symbolizes his father. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi