Former dictator Enrique (Julio Díaz) is awaiting trial for war crimes. He is old and frail and apparently suffering the effects of Alzheimer’s. He is accompanied at home by his wife Carmen (Margarita Kenéfic), his daughter Natalia (Sabrina De La Hoz) and his granddaughter Sara (Ayla-Elea Hurtado). Prior to the first day of his trial, in the dead of night he awakens to the sound of a woman crying.
As Enrique’s trial begins, his entire staff quits his employ, with the exception of the head of the household, Valeriana (María Telón). Valeriana recruits a new maid, Alma (María Mercedes Coroy) and she starts work on the day mass protests begin outside the house. The family is confined to indoors and as Enrique’s trial unfolds, the protests escalate and relationships become strained.
Although La Llorona’s framing is supernatural, the real horror it addresses is humankind’s unlimited capacity for cruelty. While La Llorona is fiction, the Guatemalan genocide against the Ixil Maya is most definitely not and there a strong parallels to be drawn between Enrique and the real life former Guatemalan president, Efraín Ríos Montt. The knowledge of this reality gives the movie a disturbing and sobering undertone.
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https://screenrealm.com/la-llorona-movie-review-shudder-horror-gautemala/
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IMDB: La Llorona
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