Miss Bala

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Movie
Original title Miss Bala
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2011
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gerardo Naranjo
script Gerardo Naranjo,
Mauricio Katz
production Pablo Cruz
music Emilio Kauderer
camera Mátyás Erdély
cut Gerardo Naranjo
occupation

Miss Bala ( bala , Spanish for ball ) is a Mexican drama directed by Gerardo Naranjo in 2011. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section and was a Mexican entry for the Oscars in the category Best Foreign Language Film submitted but received no nomination. The cinema release in the USA was on January 20th, in Germany on October 18th, 2012. The German DVD was released on March 1st, 2013.

action

Laura Guerrero, 23, lives with her father Ramon and her younger brother Arturo in the Mexican border town of Tijuana . Together with her friend Suzu, she wants to take part in a beauty contest for Miss Baja California and thus escape the poor conditions. One evening while visiting a nightclub with Suzu, she witnessed a shooting. She panics and tries to find Suzu, but she has disappeared without a trace.

The corrupt police extradite Laura Lino, the leader of the drug gang responsible for the massacre at the club. Laura is now abused by the gang for criminal missions, including transporting drug money across the US border and recruiting a Drug Enforcement Administration agent , Kike Camara. In return, Lino arranges Laura's victory in the Miss election.

After Laura wins the beauty pageant, the gang uses her as a decoy on the prominent General Salomón Duarte. When she learns on TV that Suzu had an accident in the shooting, she changes sides and warns the general about the planned assassination attempt. The gang blows up and Lino is mistakenly declared dead and goes underground. Laura is captured along with other members and publicly denounced. A little later, the police dump her on the street and leave her alone.

background

The film is loosely based on a true story when Miss Sinaloa 2008, Laura Zúñiga , was arrested along with suspected gang members in a truck full of ammunition outside of Guadalajara , Jalisco . In an interview with Complex Magazine, director Naranjo says that he met Zúñiga: “I didn't want to get into her psyche too much. I think the film has a strong first-person perspective and we tried to shut down the gang members' mindsets because I think any other film would. Above all, I wanted to draw from the impressions of an innocent person. "

reception

Since its release in Cannes, Miss Bala has received extensive critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes , 87 percent of the reviews are positive (based on 63 reviews) with an average rating of 7.1 out of 10. On Metacritic.com , the film received a rating of 80 (out of 100, based on 22 reviews).

The German film and media rating awarded the film the "rating particularly valuable". In her assessment, the performance of the main actress Stephanie Sigman in her first feature film is particularly emphasized. The Süddeutsche Zeitung referred to the difference to films by Oliver Stone and Don Winslow , which would glorify the drug war, while Miss Bala described it "from below". Spiegel Online recognizes references to the realism of the New Hollywood films of the 1970s as well as to Sam Peckinpah's road movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia  (1974) and sees a strong contrast to the "extermination escapism of recent Hollywood action in the Michael Bay style ".

The lexicon of the international film judges: "The confidently staged thriller develops a constant breathlessness through highly intensive, minute-long tracking shots, but always keeps the balance between stylistic elegance, pathos and distant irony."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miss Bala on the British Board of Film Classification
  2. ^ Certificate of release for Miss Bala . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 656 K).
  3. ^ Festival de Cannes: Official Selection . In: Cannes . Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  4. ^ Cannes film festival 2011: The full lineup . In: guardian.co.uk , April 14, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
  5. ^ John Hecht: 'Miss Bala' Crowned Mexico's Foreign-Language Oscar Submission . In: The Hollywood Reporter , September 22, 2011. 
  6. ↑ 63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar . In: oscars.org . Retrieved October 14, 2011.
  7. ^ 9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar . Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ Miss Bala. cinefacts.de, accessed on January 17, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Frank Arnold: "Miss Bala": From the dream of a better life. Hamburger Abendblatt , October 18, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Film: Miss Bala. filmreporter.de, accessed on January 17, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Anonymous reference: "Miss Sinaloa" arrested for drug trafficking. Spiegel Online , December 24, 2008, accessed January 17, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Matt Barone: Interview: "Miss Bala" Director Gerardo Naranjo Talks Mexico's Drug Wars, Beauty Queen Victims & Un-Hollywood Action. Complex Magazine, January 21, 2012, accessed January 17, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Anthony Kaufman: 'Miss Bala' Subverts Criminal Thriller Genre at Cannes 2011 . In: The Wall Street Journal , Dow Jones & Company , May 15, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2011. 
  14. ↑ Miss Bala - Rotten Tomatoes . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Flixster. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  15. ^ Miss Bala Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic . In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  16. ↑ Press text: Miss Bala. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on January 17, 2014 .
  17. ^ Fritz Göttler: Drug War from Below. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 21, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Andreas Banaski: Drug thriller "Miss Bala": Fall into Hell. Spiegel Online , October 18, 2012, accessed January 17, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Miss Bala. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 20, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used