Manuela serial

Manuela grows in a happy family, while Isabel after the death of Mme. Guerrero is unhappy. She just has discovered that her real mother is a servant, and all the family wealth is ruined. She can't accept Bernarda as the mother but admits help and forced to follow her advice. Therefore she marries a very rich man, Fernando Salinas, who fell in love with her, but she hides all her past. And it is only the first deception, made by Isabel and Bernarda Other very big lies come When Manuela has grown, her face becomes the same as the face of Isabel.

After Corrado has died, Manuela travels to Italy where she meets Fernando who makes the business there, and between them an enthusiastic love blooms. Isabel tries to save her marriage. But soon an accident on the river in Delta occurs, and because of the error in the identification of the body of another woman Isabel is declared as dead.

Fernando marries Manuela, who is identical in face to his first wife. Meanwhile Isabel survives after the accident, but her very beautiful face is completely destructed - she looks like a beast, and her voice completely changes.

She is constantly wearing the mask to hide her face. One night she returns to the Salinas family house and Bernarda at the first time do not recognizes her.

Then she discovers that she has a sister who has occupied her place in the life of Fernando. With a help from Bernarda, Isabel hides in the house and decides to convert the life of Manuela into the hell Add content advisory.

Did you know Edit. Connections Version of A Sucessora User reviews 1 Review. Top review. World is not turning fast enough! Show me one more TV-series or soap opera that still keeps its first-day filming freshness and enthusiasm in the 5th season film-set. For the process of production, filming, acting, week-to-week basis on-air rating; Manuela is among the all-time best soap operas. Don't even consider Manuela as a soap opera though, since soap operas never ever got prime-time viewing at the season final episodes like Manuela did.

Manuela was the only soap opera of my life-time that I watched from beginning till the end holding a breath. For one thing, Manuela never repeated itself and its plot never got boring nor suspenseless in 5 seasons.

The success of the production comes from its writing as a team of 8 writers. Back stories, former and newcomer character intros, puzzles for the viewer, solving timing of these puzzles, creating another suspense after each puzzle is solved, during every suspense moment we get to know closer each character learning another of their secret; everything is perfectly organized for a typical one-hour TV-show. But this is not fair, what's a production without a director?

Manuela is directed by Rodolfo Hoppe also one of the producers and Carlos Escalada, who during filming know of the fact that this film was an important milestone for everyone in the crew.

It's obvious for me now as a critic to savvy who was the director of the talent and who was the director of the technical crew. Usually TV-drama directors try not to use any action to fulfill the necessity of a completeness. Manuela clears this hassle pioneeringly.

You can see a punch, a fight, a fall or an accident, or attempt to suicide or kill; in just any time that you never expect to see during the telling of a drama piece. On the other hand romance moments were never ever broken into pieces or cut in the half. Remember that Manuela has the long lasting TV-screening of a kiss, while the longest kisses from sleeper soap operas are 2 to 3 seconds.

Fernando and Isabel walk on the Santa Monica beach holding hands, leaving footprints on the wet sand, waves come and sweep away their footprints, while Fernando tries to entertain Isabel more, Isabel keeps worrying about her skirt getting wet of the waves of the ocean.

It's a quite long scene with a background music on, offers the viewer great character intros, even for the new viewer who just seeing the series for the first time. I believe even this one little example was part of the things they all wanted to achieve. Also, great directing of photography for the scenes those were necessarily taken exteriorly. Still it's not fair, what's directing without actors? There were a number of formulas to coordinate and match the events, witnesses, antagonists and protagonists.

It's not either a newly invented formula, or a general pattern of formula reversal. It's something more than that it's creating a formula of complete mixture.

If you consider Isabel and Manuela as two characters, one is protagonist, the other is antagonist; it's never like that. Manuela is not always the protagonist and neither Isabel is. The audience kept Isabel's side, until she wore her witch mask and turned against Manuela, then after Manuela betrayed Fernando with Rudy, the protagonist became Isabel again; since she never had betrayed Fernando with another man even though it's because of her pride.

Take Bernarda as an example, she was an antagonist until the back story is told; that's when all the hearts are broken into halves, Bernarda became as innocent as Mother Mary, while her first love, now Mercedes's husband Corrado revealed as a new antagonist.

Normally, even with theater-backgrounded actors, your story will fail, if you attempt to change the antagonists and protagonists with each other; but only with that much perfect cast, Manuela could've gained more and more story depth, by means of these dedicated talent crew. Yet even this is not fair, what's a footage without editors? I never thought of the editing concept of Manuela before until I see the small parts cut into minute-length clips in Youtube, hundreds of them, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, so on.

Editors created unforgettable moments with music, sounds, mixes, and scene cuts. There was a classic pattern which I love most, like a hypnotist, either in Alps or in Santa Monica Beach, or in Rome, in Florence, on a bridge They kept some moments continuing uncut.

Manuela steps off the taxi, walks towards the river bridge, Fernando sees her, starts watching her quietly, she steps closer and closer to him, Fernando all of a sudden catches her in the mid-air while she was just about to jump into his arms, Fernando twists her around himself in the air, 4 or 5 laps her feet off ground, when she's landed in the ground safely, she's given a red rose in her hand, but not as red as her blissful smile.

World is not turning fast enough for them. They had a great chemistry. I felt like being the luckiest year old with a blonde girl-friend also year old after seeing those unforgettable Manuela episodes full of inspiration. She was proud too, but I never thought of being pride contains fooling somebody around in its meaning. In , Manuela and Daniel were married and the couple moved into a small two-story house on an estate in Villard-Bonnot.

His son Nicolas, then 7, and her daughter her name has not been revealed lived with them. Daniel with his s look of short hair and mustache, worked as a maintenance man for an installer of central heating plants. Every weekend he came to watch me play rugby. He took me to watch all the big rugby matches in Paris or Lyon. Manuela was by then the owner of a driving school at Brignoud. Having been left with financial problems because of having lost the driving school, Manuela and Daniel began to play the slot machines in a nearby casino.

When they pulled up he was standing in front of the house with a hosepipe trying to put out the fire. He was in his pajamas which had been burnt slightly; his feet had been burnt badly and he had to be given First Aid treatment. He was also badly shaken. Manuela was there too, and she was as calm as if she was out for a stroll.

On October 31, — one month and 3 days after the fire — Daniel was dead. And he had died by fire. On the rear seat lay the burnt remains of a man: Daniel.

I also saw that the AX and the dog Happy were missing. This is all I can tell you. An autopsy revealed that Daniel had a large amount of prescription drugs in his system. The drugs had been prescribed to Manuela. Despite that the entire region was whispering that Daniel had not killed himself, the police did not arrest Manuela. They bugged her phone and scrutinized her bank accounts.

Solved, at the strike of a match, so to speak. Nice lady! You would think men wouldn't be so gullible, Cano in particular after all the other men in her life who died. Delivered by FeedBurner. Manuela Cano … serial killer … or just one dangerous dame …? On If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it! One Response.