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Jayro Bustamente’s War Crimes Film, ‘La Llorona’, Reckons with Crushing Guilt
Bustament’s Efraín Ríos Montt-inspired
La Llorona reimagines the Latin American folk tale of a woman mourning her children along the banks of the river where they drowned.
La Llorona
6 August 2020 (US, Shudder)| 30 August 2019 (Venice Film Festival)
War criminals tend to act frail when prosecuted for their atrocities. In Jayro Bustamente’s film,
La Llorona (
The Weeping Woman), fictional General Enrique Monteverde (Julio Díaz) breaks into an explosive coughing fit when the guilty verdict is announced at his trial for leading a real-life genocidal campaign during Guatemala’s all-too-recent past. By casting himself as the victim, the moment is stripped from the jubilant, colorfully shrouded Maya Ixil women in the courtroom to see justice finally being served. ....

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