Home Media Magazine - November 25-December 1, 2007 - (Page 14)

R VIOLENCE INCLUDING A BRUTAL RAPE, SEXUALITY, NUDITY AND LANGUAGE PRE-ORDER DATE: JANUARY 3, 2008 JANUARY. 29, 2008 $27.98 Bordertown - BLACKFILM.COM Shall We Dance, Monster-in-Law Take the Lead, Frida can do to help - LATINO REVIEW.COM Talk to Me, The Departed THRILLER 2007 114 MIN. Theatrical Release A Jennifer Lopez stars in the true story about murders in Juarez, Mexico powerful story of life on the border between the United States and Mexico, Bordertown is based on the hundreds of women working in American-owned factories who have been brutally raped and murdered in Juarez, a city gripped by fear. When editor of the Chicago Sentinel George Morgan (Martin Sheen) sends ambitious reporter, Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), to Juarez, Mexico to investigate the murders, what she finds is the story of a lifetime. Eva, a young woman who was raped and left for dead in the desert, is the only woman to survive an attack. Unable to go to the police for help, she turns to a local newspaper run by Diaz Alfonso (Antonio Banderas), former friend and colleague of Lauren’s. Hiding Eva is incredibly dangerous, but Lauren knows that publishing her story is the only way to expose the truth behind the murders. She is immersed in a dangerous web of corruption that extends to both sides of the border. The idea for Bordertown was brewing in Oscar® Nominee writer/director Gregory Nava’s mind for a while. He and his long-time collaborator Barbara Martinez Jitner began collecting news reports coming out of Juarez, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, describing the findings of the bodies of young women who had been raped, murdered and half-buried in the desert on the outskirts of town. “My idea was to begin with a simple story woven from the tales of the mothers and families of the fallen women writing the story of a girl, Eva, who survives a murder attempt and lives to bring her attacker to justice with just wants to get the story, but soon becomes swept up with Barbara Martinez Jitner. A few years ago she went where women are slaved and underpaid and where they approached their rapists/killers), disguised as a worker; she wanted to study the situation from the inside, and I felt the responsibility to do anything I could to raise consciousness on these murders.” – Jennifer Lopez For the role of Lauren, Nava always envisioned ask- Lopez explains how Bordertown has changed her life: realising there was something so unjust going on there. your best for your job and are confronted with choices like determined woman who could be vulnerable, yet strike out there’s something serious going on and that makes Nava decided to meet with Lopez to explain to her the dire events in Juarez and to ask her to join him in telling “Gregory had written the script back in 1997 and gave Nava needed the electric presence of Antonio Banderas. Lauren immediately seeks out Diaz to enlist his help in her investigation. Their on screen chemistry is undeniable as the perils of their work bring up their long-lost romantic two children. The suppressed passion is palpable as the two struggle with the resurgence of their old love. the funding and had to postpone the project until now. ADVERTISEMENT http://BLACKFILM.COM http://REVIEW.COM

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