Even Behind Bars, Motherhood Can Be Liberating
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Much of “Lion’s Den,” the Argentine director Pablo Trapero’s sprawling, unpredictable drama about a woman who gives birth in prison while awaiting trial for murder, was filmed inside maximum-security lockups in the province of Buenos Aires using real inmates and staff members as extras. Let me emphasize, however, that “Lion’s Den” repeatedly confounds expectations about its being a typical women’s prison movie fraught with the usual overtones of lesbian sadism and caged-heat prurience.
One of the more admired films at last year’s Cannes International Film Festival, “Lion’s Den” is neither an exposé of harsh prison conditions nor a weepy melodrama about a wrongly accused innocent redeemed by last-minute revelations of the truth. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4248 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 luglio 2009
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