Film: La Llorona (2019) [] Teatro Santa Ana at La Biblioteca

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  • Film: La Llorona

    Teatro Santa Ana

    70 pesos


    Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is being tried for orchestrating the brutal genocide of native Mayans in 1982–83. Now elderly, he lives with his wife, Carmen; daughter, Natalia; granddaughter, Sara and their security guard, Letona. During the trial, Natalia is troubled by the indigenous women who describe being brutalized by General Monteverde’s army, while Carmen dismisses them as liars. He is convicted but the verdict is overturned by the high court, which ruled that his guilt could not be conclusively proven. The decision is met with disgust and unrest by the public, who hold nonstop protests outside the Monteverde home.

    Enrique’s sleep is interrupted by the sound of a woman weeping and he narrowly misses shooting his wife in the kitchen. This leads to most of his household staff — who are ethnic Kaqchikel people — quitting. His devoted housekeeper, Valeriana, brings in a young woman named Alma from her village to work as a maid. Supernatural activity involving water, including faucets spontaneously turning on, ensues. One night Enrique sees Alma wading through the pool into the house; his family discovers him, sexually aroused, watching her wash her dress. His disgusted wife tells Natalia that he was always attracted to native women and reveals her suspicions that Valeriana, who arrived at their household as a child, may be Enrique’s daughter.

    However, Natalie learns from Sara that even though she is very young, Alma already had a son and daughter who died. Alma teaches Sara to hold her breath under water.

    The protests continue around the clock, leaving the family essentially trapped in the house. Carmen wets the bed during recurring nightmares where she pictures herself as a Kaqchikel woman being chased and abducted with two Kaqchikel children by the military. The house is blanketed with flyers of the disappeared from decades earlier; Sara and Alma notice one of the Kaqchikel men on the flyers is among the crowd of protesters. Suspicion growns into Valeriana when she reveals to Alma that nobody in her village appears to know her.

    Valeriana suspects dark magic is at work and attempts to cleanse Enrique of the evil spirit. Later that night Sara uses her grandfather’s oxygen cylinder to hold her breath longer under the pool. Terrified, Enrique starts shooting Alma while accidentally shooting Sara in the arm. The house is surrounded by the spirits of the disappeared. As he searches around the house, Letona encounters the spirits of two Kaqchikel children who calmly take him away and is not seen again. Valeriana performs a Mayan ceremony while a woman’s wailing can be heard. Carmen goes into a trance as she is transported back to the nightmare, which are revealed to be Alma’s last moments, watching her children drowned by soldiers before being executed herself by Enrique. A distraught Carmen strangles Enrique in the trance and in reality.

    At Enrique’s funeral, another old general excuses to the bathroom where he hears a woman wailing as the room begins to flood.


     

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