A tough beauty pageant as "Squid Game" in the Mexican jungle. Oscar-nominee Pablo Larrain ("Jackie," "Spencer") exposes the misogynous goings-on in the pageant world.
32 South American beauties, the Mexican jungle, trash and pomp of the late 1980s: Actually, "Señorita '89" should be easy to watch. A Top Model variant from the late 1980s, in which appearance is everything and being nothing. But the eight-part series was produced by women's fate specialist Pablo
Larrain. And his interests go a good bit deeper. That's why
"Señorita '89" begins with the gruesome death of a Miss candidate - before the makers take us together with 32 other candidates to an isolated facility, where hopeful candidates are to be made into the beauty goddesses of tomorrow. It quickly becomes clear that the women have traded their freedom for a prison in which neither mind nor body are safe from abuse and treatment by their "instructors. Under the beautiful appearance shows the whole horror of an industry in which the value of women can be measured and weighed.