''La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas'' () is a 2012 Mexican
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
film directed by
Luis Mandoki
Luis Mandoki (born August 17, 1954) is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood.
Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and th ...
. The film received eleven nominations at the
55th Ariel Awards including
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Film awards
* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
for Mandoki.
Plot
Young Honduran teenagers, Sabina and Jovany, see each other again on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, after being apart for several years. She is working in a sleazy strip joint but wants to get to the United States and to be a great singer; he has become a member of la
Mara Salvatrucha
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s and 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Ange ...
, a violent gang.
At the border, they must cope with exploitation and harassment in a society dominated by brothel matrons and pimps, consular officials, immigration authorities, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha. Those in power organise drug trafficking; those lower down the pecking order also benefit from pimping or exploit illegal migrants.
Sabina goes through a rough time and a complicated relationship with Jovany in attempt to cross the United States border and become a famous singer. She makes a career in a strip joint making money by stripping and singing in front of the crowds. She is often also frequently paid to entertain at parties. The corrupt border control officers that work at the border between the countries of Guatemala and Mexico throw parties at the border that Sabina is responsible for entertaining. She uses these opportunities to attempt to cross the border, but she is always denied. She also gets mistreated by the border control and is even raped by one of the officers. This officer violently rapes her as well as strangles her with his belt. There is many hardships that Sabina has to overcome in her attempts to cross the border and eventually enter the United States to pursue her singing career.
Cast
* as Sabina Rivas
*
Joaquín Cosío
Joaquín Cosío Osuna (born 6 October 1962) is a Mexican actor and poet. He is best known for roles such as Rubén "Mascarita" in ''Matando Cabos'' (2004), General Medrano in ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in '' Narcos ...
as Burrona
*Fernando Moreno as Jovany
* as Doña Lita
*Mario Zaragoza as Sarabia
*Beto Benitez as Añorve
*
Nick Chinlund
Zareh Nicholas Chinlund (born November 18, 1961) is an American actor.
Early life and education
Chinlund was born in New York City. He attended the Friends Seminary in Lower Manhattan, later moving to Albany, New York in order to participate in ...
as Patrick
*Miguel Flores as Don Nico
*Argél Galindo as Poisson
*
Tenoch Huerta Mejía
José Tenoch Huerta Mejía (; born 29 January 1981) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in a number of movies in Latin America and Spain, starring in both feature films, short films, and '' Narcos: Mexico'', credited as Tenoch Huerta. He is fe ...
as Juan
*Dagoberto Gama as General Valderrama
*Luis Eduardo Yee as Pedro
*Tito Vasconcelos as Presentador Tijuanita
*José Sefami as Cossío
*Asur Zagada as Thalía
Awards and nominations
External links
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References
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2012 films
2012 drama films
Mexican drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Luis Mandoki
2010s Mexican films