Susana Zabaleta Movies
A Bible-quoting hit-man experiences a crisis of conflict when he's assigned the task of taking out a local priest whose successful community outreach program has devastated the local drug trade. Pablo (J. Salome Martinez, Jr.) and his smart aleck partner Pedro (Nicolas Guzman) are consummate professionals when it comes to executing the task at hand. When the time comes to take a life, the duo always offers their target a shot at redemption before pulling the trigger on them. Recently, Pablo has been asked to carry out a contract on a kindly pastor whose efforts to improve the community have incurred the wrath of the local mafia. But when you're a hired killer for the mafia it isn't as simple as just walking away, and Pablo is about to find out just how deadly it can be to deny his duties as the underworld's primary executioner. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
In Nicolas Echevarria's romantic comedy Vivir Mata (Living Kills), radio personality Silvia (Susana Zabaleta) meets starving artist Diego (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). She believes he is a famous author and, because she is so attractive, he continues the deception. They share a night of passion, but have a falling out in the morning when the truth is revealed. Both are eventually haunted by their actions as they wonder if there was a real spark of romance between them. A friend of Silvia's asks the right questions to get her to work toward reconciliation with Diego, while Diego also comes around to a new way of thinking. The film was screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Susana Zabaleta, (more)
The romantic foibles of two young couples in Mexico -- whose professional success has not led to personal satisfaction -- forms the basis of this comedy with serious undertones. Carlos (Victor Hugo Martin) is a student of new age spirituality, while his wife Ana (Susana Zabaleta) is a good bit more interested in the pleasures of the flesh, leading to no small amount of conflict. Tensions increase when Tomas (Demián Bichir), an old friend of the couple and Ana's former lover, comes to pay an extended visit. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, Andrea (Cecilia Suarez) is angry with her husband Miguel (Jorge Salinas), who doesn't appear to put much stock in monogamy, and she's even more annoyed when he announces that his former girlfriend Maria (Monica Dionne), who has just left her husband, will be their house guest for a while. After a great deal of arguing and soul searching, a temporary agreement is reached between the two couples and their friends -- the men will stay in one apartment while the women will stay in another until cooler heads prevail. Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas/Sex, Shame and Tears was written and directed by Antonio Serrano, who adapted his own successful stage play. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Demián Bichir, Susana Zabaleta, (more)
- 1997
Ten-year-old Elisa is a strange young girl who interprets things a little too literally and ends up taking herself, a younger boy named Miguel and the audience on a wild, destructive ride that starts out innocently enough but culminates in terrible bloodshed. In many ways, this crime drama is a metaphor for the economic and social difficulties of Mexicans, particularly those living in the capitol city. Elisa's descent begins after she learns that her parents' comfortably upper-middle-class lifestyle and their marriage is on shaky ground. She overhears her father say "If we get close to the end of the world, we'll have nothing to eat but roaches." Wanting to help, Elisa begins collecting roaches so she can start breeding them. She also develops a fondness for licking her captives. To help her round up more cockroaches, she enlists the aid of little Miguel, whose rich parents strongly disapprove of their son's friendship with Elisa. Up to this point, the film's tone has been upbeat and airy, but then Paco, a local punk, comes round and coaxes the kids to steal chickens for him. Later, he gives them a gun and convinces them to commit a more serious robbery. The actual heist is kind of cute, a far cry from the bank robbery that Elisa will next engineer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Unnerved by having heard a neighbor being killed, Dolores (Susana Zabaleta) is not easily reassured. Though her husband Andres (Alejandro Tommasi) discounts her concerns about nefarious goings on in their apartment building, whatever confidence she had disappears when he mutters the murdered woman's name in his sleep. When witchy neighbor, Madame Endor (Delia Casanova) says she is in danger, Dolores believes it. Then the psychologist her husband sends her to becomes convinced that she is correct in her concerns. Dolores believes Satan is involved in the unsettling events around her, and she gets the chance to find out. This film is in the Spanish language. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Susana Zabaleta, Alejandro Tommasi, (more)
