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Alejandra Márquez Abella presented Las chicas bien at the 16th FICM

Mexican filmmaker Alejandra Márquez Abella presented her feature film Las Niñas Bien in the company of producers Rodrigo González and Gabriela Maire, costume designer Annai Ramos and actresses Ilse Salas and Johanna Murillo. The film is part of the Mexican Feature Film Section, within the 16th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

Las niñas bien Rodrigo González and Alejandra Márquez.

"There are still many relationships which require women to abandon many freedoms and many things, making not having independence a kind of status quo. With the way things are, it was something worth accentuating," she said.

Ilse Salas confessed to being surprised that she had been offered a "good girl" character, but the tone in which the film was approached seemed very interesting to her from the beginning. "There was a lot of hard work with Alejandra," she added.

Johanna Murillo mentioned that filming was an unforgettable experience: "The process that we lived was incredible, I had never worked with such emotion, a wardrobe and a context. There are many rules in these universes, it is something that gives a lot of anguish to this type of characters. We had to know how to reach an earlier era, where the tone and the rules were different ".

In the afternoon, at a screening held at Cinépolis Morelia Centro, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, vice president of FICM invited Alejandra Márquez Abella to the stand. "It is an honor to present the film during the festival," she said.