In ‘Love Is the Monster,’ Paulina García Is a Granny Facing Impossible Choices (Exclusive TIFF Trailer)
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The Hollywood Reporter has the first look at Love Is the Monster, a dystopian thriller from Costa Rican filmmaker Neto Villalobos Brenes that will world-premiere in Toronto's Centerpiece section. Paulina García stars as a grandmother whose granddaughter is kidnapped for ransom, forcing her into a series of impossible choices. The film arrives with both an exclusive trailer and a poster, staking out territory in a genre that often interrogates what ordinary people do when systems fail them.
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