| La jauría | |
| Director: | Andrés Ramírez Pulido |
| Producer: | Jean-Étienne Brat Lou Chicoteau Angie Gómez Andrés Ramírez Pulido |
| Starring: | Jhojan Estiven Jimenez Maicol Andrés Jimenez |
| Cinematography: | Balthazar Lab |
| Editing: | Julie Duclaux Juliette Kempf |
| Music: | Pierre Desprats |
| Studio: | Alta Rocca Films Valiente Gracia |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | Colombia France |
| Language: | Spanish |
The Pack (Spanish: La jauría) is a 2022 Colombian-French drama film written and directed by Andrés Ramírez Pulido in his directorial debut.[1] In May 2022, it won the Critics' Week Award at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.[2] In the same month, Ramírez Pulido received the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers award for his work on the film.[3] The film was nominated in the Best Ibero-American Film category at the 37th Goya Awards.[4]
In an experimental rehabilitation center in the middle of the jungle, Eliú pays a sentence for murder. When their best friend and accomplice is transferred to the same place, the young people must rebuild their crime and face a past that Eliú wants to get away from. In the midst of therapies and forced labor, Eliú will face the darkness of human nature and will try to escape from his own before it is too late.[5]
The actors participating in this film are:[6]
The film had its international premiere in May as part of Critics' Week at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.[7] It premiered on October 20, 2022, in Colombian theaters,[8] and will be released in French theaters on April 4, 2023.[9]
The critic Fabien Lermercier of the Cineuropa portal highlighted that the film is "endowed with an eminently convincing cast", and that it "weaves a strange web where the invisible plays with hyperrealism while exploring themes such as truth, family and freedom".[10] Jonathan Holland of Screendaily stated that the film "combines powerful atmospheric elements with suspense and classic tragedy in a haunting and disturbing tone, providing a fresh, sensitive and thoughtful perspective on the cinema of gang culture in Latin America."[11]