La Llorona (2019) is a magical-realist film by Guatemalan up-and-coming filmmaker Jayro Bustamante. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival which also awarded Bustamante with the prize for Best Director for it. M is showing the film as part of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa's solo exhibition. Like Bustamante, the artist grew up in the political drama of the genocide in Guatemala – an experience that left a huge impression on both of them and which is very prominent in their work.
The screening is being organised in collaboration with Bevrijdingsfilms.
The plot
In La Llorona (the weeping woman), a legend from Guatemala's history is linked to traumas surrounding the civil war. The main character has just been acquitted in a national trial against leaders of Guatemala's military regime because of a procedural error. That night, his home turns into a haunted house. The sound of a woman crying keeps him from sleeping. Picking up his gun, he goes looking. He faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
A penetrating and ominous film that ingeniously conveys its message
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