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Synopsis: An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Carlos Carrera
  9 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
2009
122 min
55 Views


- The dead woman we found.

- He walks again.

Chief, I see a progression.

In the U.S., he attacks three

women and winds up in jail.

Here, he rapes a woman,

and nothing happens.

So he figures, this is paradise.

He starts killing them and nothing happens,

until he's murdered 46 in three years.

How'd you get that number?

I took out domestic abuse victims.

Let's say he kills a woman every month.

- It's just a hypothesis.

- Without any hard evidence.

Listen. I didn't graduate from

The Mexico City police academy,

but here in Jurez, I got plenty

of tricks up my sleeve.

Put him behind bars,

and his super lawyer will

have him out in no time.

No way. Cousin Juanita!

- You're wet!

- Sorry. I'm all sweaty.

Come inside.

How was the trip?

Sit down.

From Cintalapa, Chiapas, to Villahermosa

From there to Mexico City;

From there to Durango, then here.

-Two days on a bus.

-So my uncle let you come after all?

Hang on... He sent you two things.

Gimme a second.

He figures, he's gonna die soon,

and since all the single men left town,

he let me come.

You know the last thing Pa said?

I'm getting on the bus, and he says:

"Don't you come back pregnant. "

C'mon. I'll show you your room.

- A room for me?

- You're not in a village anymore.

A whole room, all to yourself.

- For real?

- Yep.

Hold still.

I'll take out the Indian, you'll see.

Look cousin, that's the United States.

- Where?

- There!

Someday I'm gonna cross.

You're not crossing the street

without my permission, kiddo.

If I ever told you I love you

that I'd give my life for you

if I ever told you I loved you

it won't happen again

Looking good, Juana.

Put on your sneakers.

- Good, how?

- In good health.

Have a seat, please.

Take these birth control pills.

To not have kids?

- Do you have a sex life?

- Of course not, Doctor!

Juana, girls change here.

They're liberated.

They make their own money and decisions,

especially with no parents around.

I'm not going to get knocked up!

That's what these are for.

Every month, you take a test.

If you're pregnant, you're fired.

OK?

Mrgara.

Set the tray down, open it,

put in the part,

then close and release...

Cold sweat means the

desert is getting to you.

That's what you get for

driving around alone.

In Veracruz, we call it dengue.

It happens, then it just goes away.

I want to check him out.

I take full responsibility.

You got it.

You were never here.

Nope. Never.

Cover me.

Whiskey. One more.

Get me a whiskey. One more.

Yes? Yes?

- Freeze!

- Hands behind your head!

Now!

Get dressed!

Stay back!

Where would I call from, a**hole?

Get dressed!

Cover up.

Stay back. Move! Get dressed.

- How old are you?

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Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman Goldberg (Mexico City, August 21, 1955) is a writer and journalist. Considered to be Mexico's most critically and commercially successful contemporary playwright, Berman is one of the most prolific living writers in the Spanish language. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. Her style tends toward humor and language, or the need to move beyond the limits of language. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Juan Ruiz Alarcón) and has twice won the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo). Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel. "In her plays, there are certain constants worthy of note: a taste for humor; a mistrust of official discourse and indeed, of all discourse in general; the need to surpass both sexual limits and those that apply to literary genres." more…

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