Life on the streets: La Zona
10 April 2012
Rodrigo Pla’s drama is set in La Zona, a gated community in Mexico City. Decisions are made by the rich inhabitants, who are shocked when some youths manage to cross their threshold to do a bit of burgling.
The intended heist is bungled, a woman is accidentally killed and a resident shoots a security guard by mistake. Soon all but one of the burglars are dead too — and the police must not be informed of what happened. This leaves the one honest cop trying to find the truth and the remaining robber (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) unable to get out of La Zona.
This is a well-made realist study of what happens when society is divided between rich and poor. But it is also so schematic that some of its power drains away.
La Zona
Cert: 15
