Plot
The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 6.8/10 (1,179 voted)
Critic's Score: 80/100
Director:
Gerardo Naranjo
Stars: Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Irene Azuela
Storyline The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Writers: Gerardo Naranjo, Mauricio Katz
Cast: Stephanie Sigman
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Laura Guerrero
Noe Hernandez
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Lino Valdez
Irene Azuela
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Jessica Berlanga
Jose Yenque
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Kike Camara
James Russo
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Jimmy
Miguel Couturier
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General Salomón Duarte
Gabriel Heads
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Agent Bell
Trivia:
Mexico's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.
User Review
Remarkable, gripping and worrying film
Rating:
I'm an Englishman who has lived seven years in Mexico. I disagree
completely with the previous review. I thought this was a remarkable
film and scary in what, to me, appears to be a realistic, credible
depiction of life in Tijuana. I thought the main actress was
exceptional in the way she allows us to view the film through her eyes
and shows her increasing trauma and dislocation as she is drawn more
and more against her will into the dark world of organized crime, the
police, the army and their overlaps. To me the film shows the terrible
loss of innocence and the violence that is being perpetrated every day
in Mexico against the Mexican people as exemplified and represented by
the main character.
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