Un monstruo de mil cabezas / A Monster with a Thousand Heads
„A wounded animal doesn’t cry, it bites“. Sonia Bonet desperately requires access to medical care for her ill husband. The insurance company remains indifferent to her needs – a process, which seems arbitrary, a whole system, which seems corrupt – and Sonia’s despair leads to a willingness to do anything. She takes matters into her own hands and kidnaps the doctor responsible, thus catapulting both herself and her son into a spiral of violence.
Director Rodrigo Plá’s magnificent and suspenseful socio-political thriller has been one of the biggest festival hits in recent years. A biting yet poetically ironic commentary about the desperation we feel when faced with the apathetic, impenetrable monster that is bureaucracy – not just in Mexico but anywhere.
- Genre: Drama
- Country, Year: Mexico, 2015
- Runtime: 75 Min
- Languages: Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Director: Rodrigo Plá
- Cast: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre Boëda, Hugo Albores, Nora Huerta, Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Screenplay: Laura Santullo
- Cinematography: Odei Zabaleta
- Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger
- Sound: Axel Muñoz
- Music: Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum
- Producers: Sandino Saravía Vinay, Rodrigo Plá
- Co-Producers: Matthias Ehrenberg, Ricardo Kleinbaum, Luis Díaz
- Production Company: Buenaventura Cine
- World Sales: Memento Films International
