Film

Lion's Den 2008

Directed by Pablo Trapero

  • Drama
  • 113 min

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.

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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.

  • earnestironic
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • unpretentiousprestige

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