Natalia Oreiro, in brilliant work, heads the cast of Benjamín Ávila’s feature film, based on the case of an imprisoned man by police error
Sometimes the police are wrong. The son of Andrea Casamento He suffered six months in Ezeiza’s prison just because they confused him with another. And during those months the mother suffered the unspeakable, made long kilometers, very long rows to see him, wear clothes and food, suffered vexatious requisitions, the suspicion of other mothers, the hypocritical gaze of those who supposed their peers.
Also during those months he could discover the humanity of many prisoners and the heart of the other women who were suffering just like her, and knew how to organize them. Thus the civil association of relatives of detainees emerged. Thus, in addition, because there is no harm that for good does not come, he met a good man.
In that story the director is inspired Benjamín Ávila To do “The woman in line”which is not a biopic of Casingbecause in many ways it differs a lot. With intelligence, take the aforementioned circumstances and enrich them by providing other situations, other reactions.
The boy’s attitudes that the mother does not understand, shame and annoyance before the prejudiced piety of some nearby beings, the reaction of the little sister, the evolution that goes from the blind arrogance to the understanding of the impotence itself and from there the change, what is called “the discovery of the other”, in this case, of the others, mostly of another social class, other culture, other culture, other culture, other culture, other culture, other culture, other culture, other people spoken And next to that, the rules of the prison, both those imposed by the service and those handled by the punishes, as can be deduced, with a management that reaches the courts.
Full of rich notes on the behavior of people, interesting and impressive for those who never had to go through the circumstances that are shown here (and that are shown with due knowledge and respect, without exaggerations), the film excites with total cleanliness, and with an out -of -standing actress, Natalia Oreiropresent practically in all the scenes, to the washed face, with raining, tender, unbridled, desperate, proud, destroyed, re -brought an admirable, and impeccable composition.
And always, at the service of the plot. They accompany her Alberto Anmann Like the tanned prisoner who gives him a hand, Federico Heinrichthe teenage son with all his complexity, Lead Uranga, Amparo Noguerathe Tigresa Acuñapity that on a paper too short.
Our recent cinema highlights three good prison issues and good material for reflection: “The visit” by Leandro Colas, filmed in Sierra Chica, “Family crimes”, by Sebastián Schindel, and now “The Woman of the Row”, by Benjamin Avila. A detail: “the visit” was quite fun, but that tango of Lomuto and Contursi “shadows, nothing more” (“I could be happy, and I am in life dying”) was kept.
“The woman in line” It is controlly dramatic, but the end has a smile, and the theme of Tejada Gómez and Isella “Song of Simple Things”, in sweet interpretation of Oreiro accompanied by Ricardo Mollo.
“The woman in line” (Argentina-Spain, 2025); Dir.: B. Avila; Int.: N. Oreiro, A. ANMANN, F. Heinrich, A. Noguera, M. Acuña, L. Uranga.
Source: Ambito
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