La zona (2007)

Director:

Rodrigo Plá

Writers:

Rodrigo Plá (writer)
Laura Santullo (writer)

Release Date:

9 November 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.

Plot Keywords:

Wall | Security Guard | Hiding | Teenager | Violence

Awards:

16 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Daniel Giménez Cacho	...	Daniel
Maribel Verdú	...	Mariana
Alan Chávez	...	Miguel
Daniel Tovar	...	Alejandro
Carlos Bardem	...	Gerardo
Marina de Tavira	...	Andrea
Mario Zaragoza	...	Comandante Rigoberto
Andrés Montiel	...	Diego
Blanca Guerra	...	Lucía
Enrique Arreola	...	Oficial Iván
Gerardo Taracena	...	Mario
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Noe Alvarado	...	Maestro
Miriam Balderas	...	Yolanda
Fernando Banda	...	Alberto
Fernando Becerril	...	De La Garza
Claudia Becker	...	Mercedes
Celin Bosques	...	Guardia 1
Alejandro Brado	...	Ismael
Eduardo Cassas	...	Residente 1
Diego Cataño	...	Elvis
Juan Pablo Cueva Berea	...	Bruno
Mayahuel del Monte	...	Dorita
Ricardo Fernandez-Deu	...	Residente 3
Iñaki Goci
Tenoch Huerta	...	Mario
Pablo Aron Lopez	...	Mauricio
Concepción Márquez	...	Ana Maria
Fermin Martinez
Gerardo Martínez
Claudio Obregón	...	Ricardo
Claudio Pastor	...	Esteban
Ignacio Pla
Josefo Rodríguez	...	Residente 2
Asur Sagada	...	Carolina
Mayra Serbulo	...	Ernestina
German Valdez	...	Eddie
Margarita Wynne	...	Mujer major
Eileen Yañez	...	Elsa

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

Canada:97 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Argentina:97 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Italy:VM14 | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | USA:R (certificate #45396) | France:U (with warning)

Filming Locations:

Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico

Company:

Morena Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "At the Movies: (2008-11-26)" (2008)

About DF?

Every year there's a summer movie festival in the open court of an old palace in my town. I like going there, with some friends of mine or alone, to see films carefully chosen every time from the recent months new releases. The logic is: no blockbusters, high quality. I knew nothing about "La Zona". From the first minute, i was given the possibility to see the future directly in the eyes of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, if they were here now. The birth of a brave new world, full of violence, where law is a word without meaning. Or with a lot of different meanings, that's the same. The plot is very simple,but brilliant. A perfect mechanism, with classical roles and fantastic acting. Destiny is in the air, like in Greek tragedy, and the best of all is that you can't identify yourself with one or the other easily. If you do that, you'll be someway guilty. Not to miss.