This is a sort of Orange is the New Black, but not with the voyeuristic male viewer in mind. Trapero went to real prisons and filmed with real inmates and not in rebuilt sets in a studio. It's rough and raw, not slick and polished as the US serial. And while I got tired of the US personnel, I felt that I wanted to know more about the destinies of the people in this film.
Julia might or might not have killed her boyfriend; the clues are vague, the statements contradictory, the memories distorted. There was another man in the flat. Julia's boyfriend might have had an affair with that man. Many things remain in doubt. Anyway, Julia is pregnant and in jail she gives birth to a boy. Her mother arrives. She wants to take care, at last she takes away the boy. Julia wants to have custody again. When she is granted a guarded trip outside to see her child, she profits from the occasion and flees to Paraguay.
A simple story, contemporary social realism, but without preaching and agitating.
9/10
Julia might or might not have killed her boyfriend; the clues are vague, the statements contradictory, the memories distorted. There was another man in the flat. Julia's boyfriend might have had an affair with that man. Many things remain in doubt. Anyway, Julia is pregnant and in jail she gives birth to a boy. Her mother arrives. She wants to take care, at last she takes away the boy. Julia wants to have custody again. When she is granted a guarded trip outside to see her child, she profits from the occasion and flees to Paraguay.
A simple story, contemporary social realism, but without preaching and agitating.
9/10
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