Age: 60
female
Best known for her long-time run on the ABC comedy, "George Lopez," Constance Marie stars next in the upcoming Latinx romantic comedy series, "With Love." Created and written by Gloria Calderon Kellett ("One Day at a Time"), the five hour-long episodes, each of which are set during a different holiday, follows the multi-generational Diaz family over the course of 12 months as they experience the highs and lows of life during some of the most heightened days of the year. Constance plays Beatriz Diaz, wife to Jorge Sr (Benito Martinez) and mother of two who is going through a midlife/identity crisis with her kids getting older and her marriage to Jorge Sr on auto pilot. All five episodes of "With Love" premiered on Amazon Prime Video on December 17, 2021.
She has spent her life being looked at. This is the film about what happens when she finally looks back. Carmen Reyes, 26, is a fine art photographer living in Los Angeles whose work — intimate, devastating portraits of people in private moments — has made her one of the most discussed artists of her generation. She does not show her own face. She does not allow herself to be photographed. She has spent her career behind the lens with total control over what is seen and by whom. When a retrospective curator, Elias Vance, approaches her for a major exhibition and as part of the arrangement requests that Carmen herself be photographed — one portrait, for the catalogue — she agrees, despite every instinct telling her not to. The film follows the weeks of preparation for both the exhibition and the portrait session, during which Carmen's past surfaces with a precision that mirrors her own photographic practice. The film is a slow-burn psychological portrait about a woman who understands other people's interiority with extraordinary accuracy and has spent her career using that understanding to avoid examining her own. The portrait session at the film's center — lasting roughly twenty minutes of real time — is the film's climax and most formally daring sequence. Act One — The Archive Carmen moving through her own work preparing for the retrospective. We understand her methodology, her precision, the extraordinary intimacy she extracts from her subjects. We understand also the absolute blank wall she maintains around herself. Act Two — The Preparation The weeks before the portrait session. Elias's growing understanding that Carmen is not simply camera-shy. The return of Jonas as memory. Rosario's visit. Act Three — The Portrait The session itself. Twenty real-time minutes. The film's formal center and emotional detonation.
