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Synopsis: The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends, work tirelessly to help the local people. Julian uses his political connections to oversee the construction of a hospital. Nicolas joins him following the failure of a project he was leading in the jungle, after paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled, he finds a little comfort in Luciana, a young, attractive, atheist social worker. As Nicolas' faith weakens, tension and violence between the slum drug dealing cartels grow. And when work on the hospital is halted by ministerial decree, the fuse is lit...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Pablo Trapero
Production: Strand Releasing
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
105 min
$7,631
61 Views


You can get support from the group,

from us, from your family...

Family? We were all

abandoned when kids!

There's people who care for you,

Chato.

It's the way it works.

You have to take it day by day.

Then if I do drugs,

God will punish me.

No, God is not there to punish you.

That's how people

who don't understand God think.

Try to think of God as a friend.

Friends don't always choose

the right path.

Besides...

the wrong path is always cooler.

- Yeah!

- Isn't it?

What did the other Father

make out of all this?

What did I just say?

That you like to party.

You're one of the cool ones!

- How do you say party in French?

- Duef...

- What about bullshit?

- Merde...

- Motherf***er?

- La chatte de ta mere.

- And go f*** yourself?

- Enough!

- Doesn't it translate?

- Yes, it does.

- Who's been missing? For how long?

- Two weeks. Good morning!

- Morning!

- Don't know. Let's ask Cruz.

- Okay.

- Hi there.

- Hello.

- Hey guys. How do you do?

- How are you?

- We are just a few...

- Yes! I can tell!

- There are many missing...

- What happened? Anybody knows?

- I don't know, Julin.

- Don't you speak with the others?

- I've told them a million times.

- So?

- They don't want to come.

But if you are friends,

try to talk them into coming.

- It's important that they come, right?

- They keep saying they will but...

This is Andy. He wants

to be part of the workshops.

- Hello.

- Hi Andy!

Make room for him!

- Thanks...

- Sit here, that's right.

- I'll see you later.

- Okay.

- Bye, bye.

- Shall we continue?

See you later, Julin.

Okay. Let's put one.

Hold this one for me.

Hail Mary, full of Grace.

Our Lord is with thee.

Blessed art Thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of Grace.

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of Grace.

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of Grace.

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women, and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of death.

Amen.

All this must go. This is where

the housing project will be built.

The people living here now,

will be the first to get

the new apartments.

- Good morning, Father.

- Hi there!

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