Belen Blanco Movies
Fantastic Factory presents another spooky Spanish horror tale with The Nun, a pseudo-slasher ghost story that finds an evil water-nymph nun seeking vengeance against her murderers from years before. Before her disappearance, Sister Úrsula was highly feared in her boarding school. Often tormenting her students with her own brand of extreme religious zealotry, this nightmarish nun was deathly strict with her code of ethics. When one of her 15-year-old pupils is found to be pregnant, the nun forces her into a dangerous spiritual cleansing that ends in tragedy when the girl's five classmates break up the torture session and inadvertently kill Úrsula in the process. Upon the reopening of the school almost 20 years later, two of the group's survivors end up dead, which forces the rest of the old friends to face their own demons over what happened that fateful night. With the help of the now-teenaged daughter of the original student, the group confronts the very thing that haunts their dreams and forever links them together in hushed silence. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anita Briem, Belen Blanco, (more)
- 1997
Thomas is a grown man, but lives with his grandmother in the industrial section of a big Argentine city. His life isn't going exactly as planned. Though he has just impregnated his girlfriend Ana, he finds himself avoiding her because he has fallen in love with Alma. He simply ignores Ana. When he needs to make some fast money, he hooks up with a drug dealer. Unfortunately this only makes matters worse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Facundo Luengo
- 1993
The well known Argentine murder case involving the murder of a young woman by a group of well-connected young men is the foundation for this political drama. The ensuing coverup by police made it impossible for the criminals ever to be brought to justice, but the dedicated efforts of protestors ensured that the governor of the province (whose son is thought to have been involved in the killing) was forced to resign after decades in power. The story of the killing, coverup, and protests is told through a series of vignettes, and the film includes some of the actual news coverage of the over sixty marches attended by irate citizens. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valentina Bassi
