When executive Gabriela Tagliavini was casting her latest film, “Without Men,” starring Eva Longoria, Christian Slater and Kate del Castillo, she knew it was essential to get a passionate chemistry right.
Not between Longoria’s character, an typical lady who becomes a “mayor” of a Latin American towering encampment where all a males have been forced to join a riotous army, and Slater’s character, a enthusiastic gringo journalist.
In a English-language comic fable, blending from Colombian author James Canon’s novel “Tales From the