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As a crime fanatic this movie was good. We get to learn about this innocence 13 year old girl Yara who is into sports, and usually walks home after she is done at her local gym, not far from her home. But tragedy hits the town when she disappears and her body is found. Who would do such a cruel thing to a child?

The detective was the star of the show and without her resolve this case would have never been solved.

"Yara" is a Drama - Thriller movie in which we follow the true story of a mysterious missing 13-year-old. This case was investigated by a prosecutor who did not lose her faith and tried very hard to solve the mystery behind it.

I liked this movie very much because it was based on a real case, it had an interesting plot that contained plenty of suspense and mystery, something that made it even more interesting. The direction which was made by Marco Tullio Giordana was very good and he did an excellent job on the way he presented the plot behind the missing person along with the key characters of the movie. The interpretations of Isabella Ragonese who played as Letizia Ruggeri, Thomas Trabacchi who played as Maresciallo Garro and Miro Landoni who played as Cancelliere Edoardo Carlini were very good. In conclusion, I have to say that "Yara" is an interesting thriller movie and I recommend you to watch it because I am sure that will leave you speechless.

Excellent production starts out snappy and well-constructed but loses focus towards the end. This may be a result of the nature of the true story taking several years to come to a conclusion. Not sure how the filmmakers could have solved this but a stronger soundtrack would have helped. This is not to say the music isn't good when it happens, it's very good, but the film needed more to fill in the gaps caused by the disjointed timeline of the case. Everyone on screen is very good.

Very interesting movie, but poor attention was given to details and acting performance. It's very similar in style with a fiction at times.

Besides (with all due respect to the final verdict and the trial) only one side of the story has been told in this movie and no voice was given to the than-suspect.

I approached this movie without knowing what to expect.

It is sad to review a film that is based on real events, in this case the murder of a poor girl. The story is well told.

The actors are credible and for the whole film there is a certain restlessness and anxiety.

In its genuineness, the film is perfect. Maybe a part of the action is totally missing but if it didn't happen I don't see why it needs to be told.

Sometimes I had the impression that the film was running too much towards an epilogue maybe a little hasty.

Surely saddened to know that the girl's parents could watch the movie and relive the moments that anguished them so much.

An above average movie with competent performances by everyone. However it would have been better if it was edited a bit more tightly thus reducing its length by 10-15 minutes. If you enjoy watching true stories involving the justice system,then you should not miss this film 6/10.

Good actors, very nicely done. I have to think about the suspect, and how he having three girls himself is able to commit such crime. I also read that the trainer at the sports center match the blood found on Yara's jacket, and why she was crying the night of Yara disappearance? No rape, is also the big elephant in the room. I'm not trying to excuse this man, but many things unsaid, inconclusive.

This is one of the saddest cases I've encountered, Letizia Ruggeri, did not only destroyed the life of an entire family, she went along and made this movie to portray hersefl as a heroine.

It must be noted that she is curently being investigated, due to her porr handling of the Bosetti case. Not only was it admittedthat the DNA test taken were faulty, she went out of her way to destroy evidence and to deny the chance of a fair trial. Truy a tragedy for Yara and Massimo. No justice for either of them.

THIS MOVIE IS POLITICAL PROPAGANDA.

You should watch the netflix documentary instead and then watch this to see how low can a person go in order to keep her job.

This film has no fiction, but a lot about the reality of gender violence. A teenager disappeared in Bergamo, a city in northern Italy, capital of the homonymous province and part of the Lombardy region. In fact, she was kidnapped by the end of 2010, weeks later she was found dead in an open field on the outskirts of Bergamo. That shook Italy, so the police took the task of investigating the incident with very little chance of discovering the culprit, unless the necessary resources were put in place for this purpose and develop a thorough investigation. This was what the prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri set out to investigate for years and with traditional methods. Fortunately, we live in a world where there is scientific development in the field of molecular biology; it is known what a gene is, a short segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and an important part of the chromosomes. They tell us as a whole the hereditary material of the human body and the way it works. Therefore, there was no need for the services of Sherlock Holmes or detective Philip Marlowe. The film clearly shows the political baseness and the entanglements of an opposition to harm those responsible for the investigation, and as usual, without proposing any other alternative to get the truth of the case.

Kids gone missing - there probably is nothing a lot worse for parents. And it doesn't happen that often that one finds a determined police individual that really wants to solve or rather find the kid. I am not saying that others do not care - but the determination in this case (no pun intended) is quite astonishing.

I did not know the real case this is based on, but the movie does a good job taking us through what happened, step by step. Very well played and edited together. It probably will touch you one way or the other.

The movie was extremely mediocre if not bad. There was no emotion, no thrill, no suspense and for a true sad story like that you would think it would be more impactful for the viewer. But I bet reading the report about the case would be more interesting than anything we saw in the movie. It's like a robot made it. Showing the events but without any emotion whatsoever.

Thoroughly enjoyed this production which has excellent cast and is well scripted and directed. Visually exciting and with much more beautiful detectives and court prosecutors than we have in the UK. If I'm going to be arrested for anything I'd like it to be in Italy.

The fact that this is a factual case makes it all the more watchable but one can't help but wonder if true justice was meted out in the end.

I'd watch it again.

This almost one and half hour movie is a well enough narration of a plot based on a true crime. A 13-year-old girl goes missing with no traces and suspects. The case almost remains at a standstill until the police discover the dead remains of the victim. The head investigator goes on a wild hunt for the murderer and after multiple hurdles, a single breakthrough leads to the culprit.

The story provokes immense respect for the unfaltered efforts of the prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri towards solving the case despite the immense difficulties she faces: workplace gender oppression, sexist remarks, limited sources, lagging leads and public harassment. But she braves all odds and helps the grieving family to find closure.

The Gambirasios, the grieving family were extremely patient and co-operating. They had faith in the judicial system and weren't particularly affected nor participated in the slandering of prosecutor Ruggeri's name.

The disappointing momentum in the film was when the accused didn't plead guilty, leaving the Gambirasios in the dark regarding the motive behind the crime. In addition to this, the accused to date pleads not guilty to the accusation.

I felt a lack of character development in the movie and would have preferred a little more depth in the narration. In addition, a more detailed investigation would have satisfied the viewer in me. This movie is a good watch if you are a fan of crime dramas and documentaries.

A true story and one that will keep you interested. A young girl goes missing and is ultimately found dead. That is NOT a spoiler as this is evident from the very beginning. It took years for this mystery to be brought to a conclusion and 'Yara' leaves no stone unturned in showing the frustration of the female prosecutor in seeking out justice.

The importance of DNA kept this case alive and without it this would most probably have been filed as an unsolved case. Give this movie a try, it's worth it.

Set in Italy, this is the story of a 13 year old eighth grade schoolgirl Yara who was unfortunately kidnapped and killed. It is a true story which took place in 2010 and the conviction of the murderer took place in 2013.

Investigation was done by a lady prosecutor who was finally able to locate the perpetrator through a lengthy, painstaking process using DNA samples found on the body of the girl. (A little surprising aspect is that as per the movie there was no database of DNA samples in Italy at that time ) The director keeps the pace slow as the investigation continues day to day. We see the anguish, pain and the grief of the parents as they are questioned on all aspects of the case . Typically no reason for the crime is ruled out. As it happens in such cases, media politics and media trial raise their ugly head. Since the case is handled by a lady prosecutor and the pace is slow there are adverse comments and she is almost replaced by a man expected to bring in faster results. This investigator however does not meet the parents immediately as she says she will meet them only when she has some favourable development and not just for offering condolences and sympathy.

The perseverance of the investigator in going ahead with little data and in the face of obstacles is shown well. Some may find technical discrepancies in the investigation but that is beside the point in this human interest story where emotions play centrestage and there is an urgent need to nab the criminal.

All told a fairly engrossing whodunit albeit a bit slow. Audiences who like human interest movies will find it interesting.

The reason why I only gave 4 stars because I don't like the acting of the female lead actor. There were a gestures that I think she was exaggerating them and it was uncomfie to watch. The second is Letizia made a quite huge mistake in determining the suspect in Yara's murder (Mohammed Fikri). Until the movie is finished, it still doesn't show whether Massimo did kill Yara or not. It doesn't give detail both sides and only focuses on what Letizia and the team have done to pinpoint who the killer is. It should be noted that until now Massimo has not admitted to the allegations. There are too many holes in it, and the writer didn't do his research comprehensively.

Isabella Ragonese shines in this investigation based on a real-live event: no cliché , no filler ,no hint at her private life, no unnecessary scene (the brief moment when she thinks she's lost her own daughter could not have been more human).

A determined woman , but not the usual smug cocky hero/heroine one meets in so many thrillers ,a human being with her doubts and her moments of discouragement ; putting her career on stake, even when everybody is against her .The parents,too,give a restrained performance,full of dignity , always trusting her and never overplaying,no facile tear-jerking scene. But the mother's look,at the end of the trial ,is revealing.

In spite of a horrible tragedy (the viewer knows from the start the fatal issue and the martyr the victim endured) , this is a gripping ,absorbing investigation ,involving the simplest methods (the diary of the teenager) and the more complex ones (DNA ); another strong point is that even in real life ,there are red herrings: a mistranslation can ruin an innocent's life.

The screenplay is extremely superficial and does not involve any criminalistics knowledge. The storytelling is nothing but linear and the plot is very obvious in each and every second of the movie. Every new clue is just thrown at the viewer without letting the viewer make own observations and conclusions. The steps the detectives make in their approach are flawed and chronologically unorganized. The acting was just a bit better than bad. The camera work lacks creativity, there's no movement or focus shifting to lead us through the story. All in all, feels like the director had much more money than knowledge or intellect at hands.

Sometimes, real life immitates fiction, delivering artistic experiences worth screentime or pages in a book, or really any other form of art. However, there are also times when real life is just simply real life.

Yara has two main problems: the direction and the screenplay.

The movie starts in media res, and then we jump backwards 3 months, which creates a narrative slowness that is hard to bear. Because the movie already exposed what happens in the middle plot point, the first half is just trying to build character.

The main character is Chief Investigator Letizia Ruggeri, a senior crime investigator, strong woman and woman. The story follows her decisions while leading the case, and the toll that investigating the disappearance of a 13-year-old has on a mother of a daughter around the same age. Isabella Ratonese plays Letizia and does a fine job, overall.

If you endure the first half, the second half is 48 minutes of pretty much the same. There is no sense of urgency, no clock ticking down for another victim, nothing. We see the case spans several years, and, although we see the seriousness of how Letizia is leading the investigation, the events are just regular - I went for "boring" here, but I don't think that is the case, rather, it is just too mundane.

Quick research shows that the whole trial process was convoluted, and even Letizia got her fair share of diligency in real life due to possible trial fraud, but that happened one year after this movie was released. The movie also avoid exploring a few loose ends, quite conspiracy-drive, but would be nice to open these gaps in the investigation. None of that, the movie just shows plain and simple the key events that led to the closure of this case, one of the most extensive, and expensive, cases in Italy.

Yara is okay, it even won an award for best TV movie, so you see the power it might have. It is a realistic dramatization of the events, without that many story tools thrown into it. Might feel bland, and in fact it quite is, though not in a terrible way. The movie just come sand goes without any deep connections.