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Lion's Den

Leonera

Brazil, South Korea, Argentina

2008

113 Min
Color
2.35:1
Spanish, French
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DIR Pablo Trapero

EXEC Martina Gusman

PROD Youngjoo Suhrstedt, Pablo Trapero, Walter Salles, Youngjoo Suh

SCR Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Pablo Trapero

DP Guillermo Nieto

CAST Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura García, Tomás Plotinsky, Leonardo Sauma, Clara Sajnovetzky

ED Ezequiel Borovinsky, Pablo Trapero

SOUND Andrés P. Estrada

London (Film on the Square), Cannes (In Competition), San Sebastián (Horizontes Latinos), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), AFI FEST (Showcase), Outfest (International Dramatic Features), Karlovy Vary (Open Eyes), Helsinki, CPH PIX

Synopsis

In Buenos Aires, the independent college student Julia Zárate awakes in her apartment with gore everywhere, her lover Nahuel stabbed, and his lover Ramiro covered with blood but still alive. Julia is pregnant and is sent to a special prison wing with mothers and pregnant prisoners to wait for trial. Julia befriends Marta, who has two children and helps her to understand motherhood and life in prison. Julia delivers Tomás and her mother tries to kidnap her grandson, causing a rebellion in Julia’s wing. When Ramiro, who was also Julia’s lover, accuses her of murdering Nahuel, her expectation of raising Tomás is hampered. –IMDb

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Pablo Trapero

Pablo Trapero was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. His feature films are Mundo Grúa (1999), shown at Venezia (Critics Award), and El bonaerense (2002), which was presented at the Festival de Cannes 2002 in Un Certain Regard. He also directed Naikor, a short film premiered in 2001, and Sarasa, a documentary for television (2002). In 2002 he created Matanza Cine, an independent film production company, which produced La libertad by Lisandro Alonso, Ciudad de Maria by Enrique Bellande and La mecha by Raul Perrone. –Cannes 

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Kayleigh Palmer

20Jan12

Amazing

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Don't Get Nasty Brother

15Oct10

First movie i watch directed by Trapero, i wasn't expecting much, but i have to admit is very unsettling in some parts, but in a good way. Before the final act the movie drags a little and although the ending is very rewarding is filmed in way that makes it to be almost anti-climatic. Good Watch.

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Lizzzy

2Oct10

I had big expectations of loving this film, but actually feel pretty ambivalent about it now. Maybe I was expecting a big social comment showpiece, and it wasn't really. Aesthetically sickly, especially in the prison scenes - I'm not saying this is a bad thing - it has the visual appearance of a headache or hangover at times. Maybe because she is in the shadow of an event she can't ever fully comprehend.

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Nikyatu

16Jul10

Also one of the better openings I've seen in a film...

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By Lucas Granero on May 28, 2009

Muchas cosas fallan en “Leonera”., En realidad hay mas cosas que me molestan que fallas en si. La primer cosa que no soporto es que quiera plantarse como original en el sentido de querer mostar cosas…  read review

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