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Synopsis: An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Carlos Carrera
  9 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
2009
122 min
56 Views


as a civilian, I can tell him all

I know about the Jurez police.

Gotcha.

I'll send your message upstairs.

Get some sleep.

You haven't slept in two days, right?

Fierro, we got things to do.

You bet, Chief!

What's up?

See you.

Fifty-fifty. That's how it's

gonna be with all our clients.

As long as you're Chief and I'm alive.

- And what's the deal with our...?

- Clients?

Yeah.

You put anything client-related

on hold and notify them.

Sometimes they want information.

This crazy bastard Santos,

for example. Check it out.

Silver Fox to Night Czar.

Sir, it's for you.

- Did you like it?

- Absolutely, you're most kind.

Any news?

You're good to go. Have a nice evening.

Hey, little dove. Where do you live?

- Close by.

- Close, like 10 minutes or 20?

- I'm almost there.

- Wanna ride?

No thanks.

I'll take you, little dove.

Get out of the car!

Get out!

Let her go!

You let her go!

Get in the car!

She's more scared of the cops than me.

On the other hand,

I turn myself in...

... knowing that I'll get a fair deal

from the authorities, a fair trial...

and a fair sentence.

So what do I do, Cop?

Which way? Here? There?

Hands up!

Get 'em up!

A score settled between drug dealers,

or so the police bulletin says,

although that would be a

first for Mickey Santos.

Anyway, he was found dead a week ago,

and here in Jurez, the one

thing that's certain is Death.

Well, on a somewhat lighter note:

Earlier today, Kikay, a Toyota subsidiary,

moved out of the Jurez Industrial Park.

How about that? The good thing

about being a transnational...

when things get ugly, you vacate

the premises and ciaooo!

You're off to the other side

of the world to find...

the same cheap labor,

the same cheap proletariat.

OK, back to crime:

excavation continued today

at the clandestine grave

found just three days ago

right there a top Lomas de Poleo.

It comes as no surprise that next to nothing

is known about how, when or who...

found the site, not to mention

the when or why of this grave

... from which women's bodies

are still being removed.

"Stop the killing! Stop the killing!"

Predictably, some journalists showed up,

and just as predictably,

the Mothers in Mourning.

You know the ones; women related

to murdered or missing women.

Likewise, our brand-new Chief

of Police made an appearance.

The guy who ever since his appointment,

in a sinister way, looks more

and more like the old Chief.

All right then. Good morning, Jurez!

And with these latest deaths, the

number of murders has risen to...

With these latest deaths...

the number of murdered women has

risen to the unbelievable total of....

To Captain Blanca Bravo,

relieved of her position...

...since we may never meet again,

this is goodbye.

Jurez must not die.

Women killed in sex crimes

Women killed in sex crimes

Women missing

Women killed in sex crimes

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Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman Goldberg (Mexico City, August 21, 1955) is a writer and journalist. Considered to be Mexico's most critically and commercially successful contemporary playwright, Berman is one of the most prolific living writers in the Spanish language. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. Her style tends toward humor and language, or the need to move beyond the limits of language. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Juan Ruiz Alarcón) and has twice won the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo). Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me (La mujer que buceó en el corazón del mundo) has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel. "In her plays, there are certain constants worthy of note: a taste for humor; a mistrust of official discourse and indeed, of all discourse in general; the need to surpass both sexual limits and those that apply to literary genres." more…

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