The Bad Intentions

Las Malas Intenciones

(Argentina , Germany , Peru, 2011, 107 mins)

US Premiere

Executive Producers: Monika Weibel, Juan Carlos Belaunde
Producers: Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, Paul Typaldos
Screenwriter: Rosario García-Montero
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Pulpeiro
Editor: Rosario Suárez
Cast: Fatima Buntinx, Katerina D'Onofrio, Paul Vega, Kani Hart, Melchor Gorrochátegul, Jean Paul Strauss
Music: Patrick Kirst, Rosario García-Montero

Growing up in Lima during the '80s, Cayetana is an only child who spends her days taunting the housekeepers who look after her and communing with her imaginary friends - a host of long-dead Peruvian heroes. What upsets the nine-year-old girl most is not the threat of homegrown terrorism, but rather the news that her wealthy, valium-becalmed mother is going to have another baby. Convinced her sibling's birth will bring about her own demise, she begins to morbidly act out her resentments.

Deftly weaving socio-political themes into a seriocomic coming-of-age story, filmmaker Rosario García-Montero makes her feature debut with this unique film about childhood, family, history and the stories we tell ourselves about all three.

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