La Llorona

Name: La Llorona
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 6, 2020
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Ayla-Elea Hurtado, Juan Pablo Olyslager, Julio Diaz, Margarita Kenéfic, María Mercedes Coroy

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): August 6, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ayla-Elea Hurtado, Juan Pablo Olyslager, Julio Diaz, Margarita Kenéfic, María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Pedro Javier Silva Lira, Sabrina De La Hoz

Summary: Indignant retired general Enrique finally faces trial for the genocidal massacre of thousands of Mayans decades ago. As a horde of angry protestors threatens to invade their opulent home, the women of the house—his haughty wife, conflicted daughter, and precocious granddaughter—weigh their responsibility to shield the erratic, senileIndignant retired general Enrique finally faces trial for the genocidal massacre of thousands of Mayans decades ago. As a horde of angry protestors threatens to invade their opulent home, the women of the house—his haughty wife, conflicted daughter, and precocious granddaughter—weigh their responsibility to shield the erratic, senile Enrique against the devastating truths being publicly revealed and the increasing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes. Meanwhile, much of the family’s domestic staff flees, leaving only loyal housekeeper Valeriana until a mysterious young Indigenous maid arrives.… Expand

Director: Jayro Bustamante

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Sep 17, 2019

Invoking genre narrative devices, the entrancingly evocative La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) walks between fact and myth to engender a shrewdly frightening piece of political horror. Read full review

Carolina A. Miranda

Aug 19, 2020

With this film, Bustamante creates a Llorona full of self-assertion and intent, an indigenous woman assuredly facing the source of her pain. This is a Llorona who is no longer trapped in the past. She has landed fully in the present. And she is ready to extract what is due. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Oct 7, 2020

Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamente posits that when the national narrative refuses to recognize the atrocities its own country committed against an entire ethnic group, weaponizing popular legends in order to convey horrifying reality is perhaps the most effective rallying cry—alongside the anguished wails of a tortured mother. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 30, 2019

How this outspoken film, Bustamante’s most gripping to date, will fare domestically is an open question (it has not come out yet in Guatemala). It had a blazing bow in the Venice Days sidebar (Giornate degli Autori), where it easily grabbed the best film prize. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Aug 5, 2020

There are some very good scenes in the movie’s second half; even so, it’s striking that the most unsettling aspect of “La Llorona” is that history doesn’t simply shape the movie. It also haunts and finally overwhelms it with terrors far more unspeakable than any impressively manufactured shock. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Aug 17, 2020

Beyond the title, the elegant, calm, and unnerving La Llorona has nothing in common with the bland big budget namesake. If it has real cinematic kin, it's the much harsher and more grotesque "A Serbian Film," or the darkly comedic "Cold Sweat" - even (and especially in the trial sequences) Costa-Gavras' "Music Box." Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 6, 2020

The performances are subdued, not really pitched to match the rising horror facing them all. Still, you have to hand it to Bustamente. He’s made a La Llorona movie with pointed politics, real world villains and righteous wrath. Sometimes, the horrors are in the headlines, or what the headlines aren’t telling us. Read full review

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AndyRyse

Aug 19, 2020

It’s amazing a movie like this came out from Guatemala it’s pretty cool the way this movies brings to the table the systemic racism against Mayan.

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bertobellamy

Feb 15, 2021

'La Llorona' transports the Latin-American myth into a story based on one of the darkest moments in Guatemalan history. With a gloomy and dark approach, director and co-writer Jayro Bustamente fantasizes about how despots and tyrants should end their days: tortured by the memories of their'La Llorona' transports the Latin-American myth into a story based on one of the darkest moments in Guatemalan history. With a gloomy and dark approach, director and co-writer Jayro Bustamente fantasizes about how despots and tyrants should end their days: tortured by the memories of their actions. An Academy Award for Best International Film is just around the corner.… Expand

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