Synopsis: A girl of poor background becomes an advertising model. She aspires to be in TV, but faces many difficulties and makes many compromises.
Appraisal: Exceedingly dull chronicle of the false promises and disillusionment in the world of mass media workers. The narrative fails to give human substance to the characters, which act just like a bunch of programmed robots with no real soul. The annoying device of an interviewer (that couldn't possibly be explained by any real internal logic of the story) puts in evidence the lack of subtlety of the filmmaker who, instead of letting the flow of events speak for itself, feels the need to throw at our faces the moral putridity of the characters, which he does by having this 'Jiminy Cricket' point his accusing finger at them. The story often strays to unrelated subplots (e.g. the congressman that hit a kid with his car) making the film even more diluted and unfocused. The film offers as a musical bonus Brazilian singer De Kalafe (who is today living and singing in Mexico) doing a nice cover of Salvatore Adamo's "Inch'Allah".
Rating: 25
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