Miss Bala
Miss Bala
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From Gerardo Naranjo (I'm Gonna Explode) comes this Mexican social issues film masquerading as an action movie, and Michael Mann would be proud. Stephanie Sigman stars as Laura, a lonely girl who hopes a beauty pageant will provide her with a ticket out of the slums of Tijuana. But at the audition, the dance hall becomes the site of a gang shootout, and she's a witness. Instead of being killed, she's kidnapped by a midlevel narco boss (Noe Hernandez) and coerced into being a runner for the gang. Though she tries to escape, he keeps pushing her through the pageant world--one corrupt as any other--since her rising profile and ability to travel make her the perfect carrier. "Miss Bala is unabashedly powerful...suggests a more crass cousin to Roberto Bolano's 2666" (Slant Magazine). After its Cannes debut, Miss Bala was named Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. In Spanish and English with English subtitles

. Gerardo Naranjo---Mexico---2011---113 mins.

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