LA LLORONA – Review by Maitland McDonagh

La LLorona strikes a delicate balance between the mundane–family secrets and lies, gracious interiors that begin to seem cramped — the threat of physical and emotional violence of things unsaid within and intrusions from beyond. It’s both intelligent and emotionally haunting, political and fantastical, a powerful combination in the right hands.

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LA LLORONA (MIFF 2020) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

La Llorona is less a typical horror film than it is a powerful political drama that employs horror codes, conventions and iconography – and a specific folkloric figure – to speak to a historical atrocity so great in scale as to almost be otherwise incomprehensible. In the right hands, horror can be turned into something with almost indescribably enormous ideological potency.

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