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Official Selection, In Competition, at Cannes Film Festival, and from internationally acclaimed director Pablo Trapero (BORN AND BRED, FAMILIA RODANTE), LION S DEN is a powerful and unflinching emotional drama, charting one mother's struggle to raise her child in extraordinary circumstances and her compelling fight for their survival and freedom. Featuring a breathtaking, award-winning performance by Martina Gusman.
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Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival, LION'S DEN is the fifth feature by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero (FAMILIA RODANTE, EL BONAERENSE).
Julia (Martina Gusman) wakes up one morning to find herself covered in blood and surrounded by the bodies of two men, one of whom is dead. Charged with murder and pregnant with one of the men's child, she is sent to the maternal wing of a tough prison. With her boyfriend claiming his innocence and her absent mother suddenly reappearing in her life, Julia soon realises that there are greater dangers for her outside the prison's walls.
LION'S DEN is a remarkable study of motherhood in the most extreme circumstances and once again confirms Pablo Trapero's position as one of world cinema's finest filmmakers.
DVD bonus features include "The Making of Lion's Den", prosthetic pregnancy featurette, stills gallery and trailer.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Bob 53
Format:DVD
This is a wonderful, beautiful, moving film. You are unclear from the beginning about the guilt of the woman protagonist, but after a while it almost becomes irrelevant and the ending is superb..... If you have read Kafka's The Trial, you will feel the same powerlessness of a brutal and beurocratic regime bearing down on this individual. However, this is a film about women's endurance,skill,creativity,their friendships and, unlike The Trial - ultimately, real empowerment. The male reviewer before me has missed and peverted the whole meaning of this film. There is nothing remotely pornographic about what little sex there is in it. The tensions and tenderness between the women are much more complex than anything he has described. Perhaps he should stick with The Shawshank Redemption.
By Paul Allaer
Format:DVD
I was recently browsing the foreign movie section of my local library and stumbled upon this. I read the DVD jacket and decided to pick it up. Glad I did.
"Lion's Den" (2008 release from Argentina; 113 min.) brings the story of Julia as she wakens up in her apartment, only to find herself in a pool of blood and two guys. Later she refers to them as "my lover and his boyfriend". Turns out the lover is dead and the other guy also survived. What happened? We don't know but both survivors are arrested and jailed. We also learn that Julia is pregnant by her boyfriend. Julia settles in her life in jail and to say things are rough would be an understatement, but at least Julia is in a special ward for jailed mothers/mother-to-be. We learn that under Argentinean law, jailed mothers are allowed to keep their babies/young kids until they are age 4, at which point the young kids are taken away (either given custody to relatives or awared to "the state"). Julia's mother, who had moved away to France 13 years ago, appears on the scene. To tell you more of the plot would ruin your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.
Couple of comments: first of all, Martina Gusman as Julia brings an outstanding performance, and that's an understatement, a tour-de-force is more like it, as she will do anything to keep her young son. Second, the movie really succeeds in delivering an emotional wallop as the story unfolds, I was transfixed how it was all playing out. This movie was Argentina's entry for the 2009 "Best Foreign Movie" Oscar nomination and it's easy to see why. If you are in the mood for a quality foreign movie that is miles away from your standard Hollywood fare, "Lion's Den" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
"Lion's Den" (2008 release from Argentina; 113 min.) brings the story of Julia as she wakens up in her apartment, only to find herself in a pool of blood and two guys. Later she refers to them as "my lover and his boyfriend". Turns out the lover is dead and the other guy also survived. What happened? We don't know but both survivors are arrested and jailed. We also learn that Julia is pregnant by her boyfriend. Julia settles in her life in jail and to say things are rough would be an understatement, but at least Julia is in a special ward for jailed mothers/mother-to-be. We learn that under Argentinean law, jailed mothers are allowed to keep their babies/young kids until they are age 4, at which point the young kids are taken away (either given custody to relatives or awared to "the state"). Julia's mother, who had moved away to France 13 years ago, appears on the scene. To tell you more of the plot would ruin your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.
Couple of comments: first of all, Martina Gusman as Julia brings an outstanding performance, and that's an understatement, a tour-de-force is more like it, as she will do anything to keep her young son. Second, the movie really succeeds in delivering an emotional wallop as the story unfolds, I was transfixed how it was all playing out. This movie was Argentina's entry for the 2009 "Best Foreign Movie" Oscar nomination and it's easy to see why. If you are in the mood for a quality foreign movie that is miles away from your standard Hollywood fare, "Lion's Den" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
1 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Lion's Den (Leonera) is a long couple of hours that would comfortably into fit half an hour. Mostly shot in a not-quite-documentary style it mostly observes its pregnant protagonist as she enters a not so bad prison where she has her son under the watchful eye of some quite nice prison guards.
There are occasional moments -- like the opening murder scene and plenty of lesbianism and nude shower scenes for anyone who feels a need to cover up their liking of that sort of thing by pretending to drawn to foreign cinema (and doesn't know how to find porn online) -- but they are not enough to redeem the movie, which never gives us a reason to care.
There are occasional moments -- like the opening murder scene and plenty of lesbianism and nude shower scenes for anyone who feels a need to cover up their liking of that sort of thing by pretending to drawn to foreign cinema (and doesn't know how to find porn online) -- but they are not enough to redeem the movie, which never gives us a reason to care.
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