The Bad Intentions


The Bad Intentions Spanish Las malas intenciones is a 2011 Peruvian drama film written and directed by Rosario GarcaMontero. The film premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. It won the award for Best Latin American Feature Film at the 2011 Mar del Plata Film Festival. It was also selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The films lead actress Ftima Buntinx was nominated for a Young Artist Award as Best Young Actress in an International Feature Film.

The film begins with a picture show and an unseen narrator recounting the fatal sacrifices former Peruvian military leaders made for their country. The scene then cuts to a classroom full of girls as a siren suddenly goes off and the children are evacuated from the building. A driver picks her up from school referring to her as Miss Cayetana,but she is unfazed by the status and remains mostly silent on the way home though at one point when a beggar approaches car she offers him her medication and comments that it suppresses the appetite.At home later,Cayetana sits alone at the table in front of a full plate of food and doesnt touch it at all,until a maid scolds her and clears the table. The maids fuss over her in the morning so that she looks pretty for her mothers return, but she has to be dragged out of the closet in which she is hiding to go meet her mother, because she doesnt want to see her. Eventually she sits stiffly on her mothers lap as her stepfather looks on and gives her gifts,but the reunion doesnt last long when Cayetana reacts to her mothers pregnancy news by storming out of the room into hee bedroom. She then decides to run away,but gets lost and is forced to return home. It is then she decides to punish her mother by withdrawing all affections and dying on the babys delivery date. ........

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