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The Defendant

2020 · 93 min

A quiet, emotionally heavy character study that sits with a woman under mounting pressure, balancing quiet tenderness against slow dread.

Directed by
Franco Lolli
Genres
Drama
Starring
Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gómez, Antonio R. Martínez
Overview
Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s inconceivable yet inescapable death, Silvia embarks on a love story, her first in many years.

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Directed by
Franco Lolli
Genres
Drama
Starring
Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gómez, Antonio R. Martínez
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • corruption
  • parenthood
  • love
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Franco Lolli
Written by
Franco Lolli, Marie Amachoukeli
Starring
Carolina Sanin, Leticia Gómez, Antonio R. Martínez, Alejandra Sarria, Vladimir Durán
Runtime
93 min
Country
Colombia, France
Languages
Spanish

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