Miss Bala - A film by Gerardo Naranjo
"A Mexican thriller with genuine bite."
Anna Smith, EMPIRE
"Naranjo turns up the heat."
Kevin Jagernauth, INDIEWIRE
"4/5; Critic's Pick "A first-rate thriller.""
Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"A terrifying tale of a beauty contest that ends in horrorÂ…"
Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A hair-raising actioner...races through events in a chain of escalating violence, tension, smoke and gunfire."
Deborah Young, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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Official Selection • 2011 Festival de Cannes
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Official Selection • 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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MISS BALA tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang that`s terrorizing northern Mexico. Although Laura succeeds in winning the beauty queen crown, her experiences as an unwilling participant in Mexico`s violent war leave her shaken and transformed.
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2011,
Mexico,
Languages: Spanish, English
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113 min.
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