“The Bad Intentions” named Peru’s candidate for Oscar race September 28, 2012 - 15:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Peruvian Minister of Culture announced that Rosario Garcia Montero’s dark coming-of-age story The Bad Intentions will be the country’s candidate for the Foreign Oscar race, The Hollywood Reporter said. Starring Fatima Buntinx and Katerina D’Onofrio, The Bad Intentions is set in 1980s Peru, and tells the story of 8-year-old Cayetana, a well-off girl who learns her mother is pregnant and believes the coming of a new sibling to the family will result in her imminent death. The obscure story is set against a time of political turmoil in Peru, when terrorism began to affect everyday life in Lima. Garcia Montero’s first film won best Peruvian film at the Lima International Film Festival, and best Latin American film in Mar del Plata fest last year. Peru previously made it to the Foreign Oscar nominations in 2009, with Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow. Partner news  Top stories Oldman made his directorial debut in 1997 with the critically-acclaimed family drama "Nil by Mouth." Yuri Shevchukexpressed a wish to meet representatives of the Armenian rock, noting it as one of the key goals of his visit. The Hunger Games star joins a cast featuring John Malkovich, Ben Kingsley, Michael Sheen and Teresa Palmer. 100 officers raided businesses, homes and art galleries across the country including in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne.   Partner news |  Latest news Wikileaks founder vows to stay in embassy “even if sex claims dropped”  “We know there is an ongoing investigation in the US and we know I am a target of the Federal grand jury,” Assange said.Russia’s Putin warns against sending weapons to Syrian rebels Putin defended his decision to continue supplying weapons to the regime, which he said was no more than completing legal contracts.Thousands evacuated as fire hits ammunition depot in central Russia The incident is the latest in a string of fires and explosions at munitions storage and disposal sites that have plagued Russia in the past two years.Earthquake jolts Peru's capital USGS said it measured 4.6 and was centered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean about 35 kilometers (21 miles) west of Lima. |
