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In Mexico City, a wealthy compound is surrounded by walls and surveillance system to protect the locals against the violence of the slums. During a stormy night, a billboard falls over the wall and three smalltime thieves cross the border through the breach to rob. They break into a house and kill an old lady; the residents organize militias to chase the delinquents. Two of them and one security guard are murdered by the vigilantes, but the sixteen year old Miguel hides in the basement of the teenager Alejandro. When Alejandro finds Miguel, he feeds and helps the boy, but it is impossible to escape from the Zone. —IMDb

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Rodrigo Plá

Rodrigo Plá (born 9 June 1968 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguay screenwriter and director. He is known for his 2007 film La Zona (The Zone), studied photography, screenwriting and direction at the Centro de capacitacion cinematogrfica in Mexico City, where he has lived since he was 11. In 1988 he directed his first short-film. —Wikipedia 

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Enrico Gaudenzi

9Nov12

Divertente e classista: i poveri indifesi contro i ricchi cattivi. Nonostante il manicheismo di fondo godibile

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flobota

18Oct11

a decent film, not as courageous as I would hope. It kinda is classic school drama stuff. But a nice twist, pretty good music and montage. and of course the topic is very up to date.

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Pierre

6Mar11

Really well thought out dystopian morality play. The heavily and unconvincingly photoshopped screencap above does the film a disservice.

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Andres Pff

15Nov10

i remember this being ruined by the awful acting...

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TIFF Report: LA ZONA Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
It’s class warfare in a very literal sense in Rodrigo Pla’s La Zona. Alejandro is a wealthy Mexican teen on the cusp of his sixteenth birthday. His family live in a neighborhood known simply as La Zona
read on Twitchfilm.com

TIFF Report: LA ZONA Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
It’s class warfare in a very literal sense in Rodrigo Pla’s La Zona. Alejandro is a wealthy Mexican teen on the cusp of his sixteenth birthday. His family live in a neighborhood known simply as La Zona
read on Twitchfilm.net

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