Acusada

Dolores, post-adolescent daughter of upper middle class Buenos Aires parents, is on trial as the main suspect in the murder of her best friend. The point of this film is not to elucidate the crime, but rather to show that truly competent lawyers (generally, only accessible to the rich) can confuse the issues in a criminal trial, using all means at their disposal including the news media. The resulting uncertainty makes a reasonable verdict unlikely. The subject brings to mind real life examples such as O. J. Simpson's trial.

The movie can be described a courtroom drama. It may be especially interesting to Americans, since Argentine law does not generally grant trial by jury; lawyers argue and depose witnesses in front of a panel of judges who are in charge of the final verdict. Trials by jury were mandated in Argentina by the Constitution of 1853, but never implemented until the early 21st century and are still are vastly outnumbered by trials by judges.

Lali Espósito plays Dolores perfectly, without eliciting the sympathy of the viewer. There are glimpses of her personality, most of them disturbing. Leonardo Sbaraglia does an excellent job as her father and Daniel Fanego plays Dolores' lawyer chillingly. Gael García Bernal makes the most of a small part with his usual charisma and earnestness. Script and direction are smooth and seamless. A movie to watch.

What happened two years before? Is she really guilty or falsely acused? What hides beneath, when all have secrets?

Do you want to loose 2 hours of your life? see this bad script movie with the worst acting perfomance of a protagonic i have ever seen.

Horrible acting...off course, she is not a proffesional. And the script, please... Ten year old suspense fan could write a better script!!!

Very well directed movie. The movie is intriguing and has an unexpected ending. This murder didn't done by a man. You can see the lioness top of the roof. The lioness have done this murder. I'm 95% sure about it. One of the best decent Spanish thriller i have watched recently. You should watch it without skipping. Then you can figure out the story behind this movie clearly.