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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 37 m

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, senile Enr...

Directed By: Jayro Bustamante

Written By: Lisandro Sanchez, Jayro Bustamante

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 37 m

La Llorona

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
79
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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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, senile Enr...

Directed By: Jayro Bustamante

Written By: Lisandro Sanchez, Jayro Bustamante

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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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95
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.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
83
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.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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80
Aug 6, 2020
Its tightening tension seeks to push frayed characters to eventually tell on themselves.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
78
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."
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75
Aug 6, 2020
This version of La Llorona finds new emotional ground. It’s not just a creepy story, but a painful reflection of injustice.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
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Production Company El Ministerio de Cultura Y Deportes de Guatamala, La Casa de Production, Les Films du Volcan
Release Date Aug 6, 2020
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The past will haunt you.
Website http://filmfactoryentertainment.com/project/la-llorona/
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
• 5 Wins & 13 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations

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