Black Butterfly
Film Title (Original): Mariposa Negra
Film Title (English): Black Butterfly
Film Title (Spanish): Mariposa Negra
Country of Origin: Peru/Spain
Year of Completition: 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Format/Color/BW: 35mm, Color
Language: Spanish
 Director: Rory Kennedy | Biography | Watch Trailer
Film Synopsis - Short:
A young schoolteacher (Melania Urbina) faces the ugliness of the political climate when her fiancé, a judge, is murdered. Seeking explanation, she confronts the cynical, muckraking tabloid journalist (Magdyel Ugaz) who is spreading rumors about his death. This dark tale of revenge and corruption by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi.
is set right before the fall of Peru's President Alberto Fujimori in 2000.
Film Synopsis - Long:
A demure young schoolteacher (Melania Urbina) faces the ugliness of the political climate when her fiancé, a judge, is murdered. Seeking explanation, she confronts the cynical, muckraking tabloid journalist (Magdyel Ugaz) who is spreading rumors about his death. Set right before the fall of Peru's President Alberto Fujimori in 2000, this chilling political thriller, and dark tale of revenge and corruption by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi is based on a novel by Alonso Cueto. At the time, the most powerful man in the country was Vladimir Montesinos, a behind-the-scenes general whose secret videotaping and brutal retributions kept the government, as well as its critics, firmly in their places.
To exact revenge the two women team up --- Urbina's impressive, believable transformation from innocent upper-class girl to a woman capable of anything finds a beautiful counterpoint in newcomer Ugaz's tough reporter.
Director Francisco Lombardi, Peru's most prolific and successful auteur, has examined this period before in his 2003 film, Ojos que no ven (What the Eye Doesn't See). But in this film, he makes the story as much a character study as a taut suspense piece, cutting even closer to the heart of the fear and corruption that characterized much of Peruvian society at the turn of the last century. Mariposa Negra (Black Butterfly) is Lombardi's 13th film and the first part of a planned trilogy; it was inspired by the novel Grand Illusions and adapted by his longtime collaborator Giovanna Pollarolo.
Film Credits
Directeb by: Francisco Lombardi
Executive Producer: Gustavo Sánchez, Miriam Porté, Pedro Pastor
Producer: : Gustavo Sánchez
Screenwriter: Alonso Cueto, Giovanna Pollarolo
Cinematographer: Paco Belda
Editor: : Roberto Benavides
Music: Antonio “Mármol” Rodríguez
Cast: Melania Urbina, Magdyel Ugaz, Yvonne Frayssinet, Gustavo Bueno, Monserrat Carulla, Lluis Homar
|
