2019 · horror · drama · guatemalan
La Llorona
Directed by Jayro Bustamante1h 37m2019
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
Our read: La Llorona (2019) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama · guatemalan entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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