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Evelyn (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min + 15 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Isabel de Ocampo

Written By:
Isabel de Ocampo
Juanma Romero

Actors:
Cindy Díaz ..... Evelyn
Adolfo Fernández ..... Ricardo
Agnes Kiraly ..... Mayra
Guadalupe Lancho ..... Amanda
Pilar Ordóñez ..... Margarita
Cristina Rodríguez ..... Joyero
Ari Saavedra
Javier Sanz
Lorena Tejedor
Sveta Zhukovska

Synopsis:

The film opens in rural Peru where Evelyn (Diaz) is being encouraged by her impoverished family to join her cousin Margarita in Spain where she has supposedly got a good job at a restaurant. These early scenes show Evelyn as a sweet young woman who relishes her life, is secretly learning to type and enjoys her family. Pressured into taking the offer of a company who helped Margarita - providing airfare and costs which are set against the family home - she finally agrees to go to Spain, but is picked up at the airport by two women who drive her through the night to the roadside brothel that is to be her new home. Drugged and raped, she is encouraged to accept her lot by Margarita (Ari Rubiano Saavedra), who has got used to the situation and brothel owner Ricardo (Alfonso Fernandez), who says she must stay there to work off the money he has advanced for her flight, accommodation, food etc. Initially she screams, fights back and attempts to escape, but gradually finds herself ground down by the claustrophobic environment of the brothel and as threats are made against her family her strength to resist is gradually worn down.

A dark, brutal and highly accomplished film, Isabel de Ocampo's highly watchable and astutely non-exploitative drama about sex trafficking may well be a bleak tale, but thanks to Cindy Diaz's powerful central performance it is always watchable.

The story may well be a simple and oft told one - naïve country girl is lured into sexual slavery - but Isabel de Ocampo shrewdly places the emphasis on the claustrophobic brothel that young Evelyn find herself and on her attempts to fight back rather than focussing on the sexual violence that is implicit to the story.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 25 April, 2013.

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