2008 · drama · prison
Lion's Den
Directed by Pablo Trapero1h 53m2008
Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.
Our read: Lion's Den (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · prison entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / prison, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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