Rita (2024)
Genre: Fantasy
Duration: 107 minuten
Country:
Guatemala
Directed by: Jayro Bustamante
Stars: Giuliana Santa Cruz, Alejandra Vázquez and Ángela Quevedo
IMDb score:
5,9 (335)
Releasedate: 18 July 2024
Rita plot
Thirteen-year-old Rita is placed in an oppressive orphanage after fleeing her neglectful family. Rita's arrival offers a glimmer of hope to the girls inside, who share a prediction that an angel will appear to set them free. Encouraged by each other, the girls plan an escape to claim their freedom and expose the orphanage's abuse of power.
Actors and actresses
Rita
Sulmy
Bebé
La Terca
Gladys
William
Celia
Monitora
Ernestina
Jefe de Policia
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I'll sit down for a new one from Jayro Bustamante. The Guatemalan is one of my favorite Latin American directors and his last production dates back 5 years with La Llorena in which the civil war was highlighted through a number of fantasy elements. With Rita he goes a whole step further. The fantasy part dominates and controls the film.
This also means that a lot of attention was paid to the visuals and the context around the plot. It sometimes results in dreamlike imaginative images with angels and a kind of atmospheric deaths in an orphanage.
Too much attention is paid to it, which causes the actual plot to be somewhat snowed under. The ending is powerful, but does not save the film sufficiently because of the long-winded, uninformative middle section. No idea what Bustamante's motives were for this. The plot about the abuses of orphanages or the vulnerability of children in home situations could have been done differently and better.
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