Netflix released today the Spanish-language trailer for In Her Place, a new period drama film from Chile based on an actual crime. It looks quite intriguing.
While I’ve imagined living a different version of my life, I’ve never imagined living someone else’s life. After watching the trailer for the new Chilean film, In Her Place, I wonder what it would be like to experience that kind of fascination.
Based on the nonfiction book When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán (the English translation of the original Spanish-language book, Las homicidas), historical drama In Her Place is based on a real event.
The film follows Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta, La Jauría, Secretos de Familia), a shy paralegal in Santiago, Chile, in 1955. She works for the judge who is presiding over the case of Georgina Silva Jiménez, better known as María Carolina Geel, a popular writer, who shot and murdered her lover, Roberto Pumarino, in cold blood and in public at the fashionable Crillón Hotel. After visiting the writer’s apartment, where she finds an oasis of freedom from her own life, Mercedes begins to fashion herself after María Carolina.
Although the two women’s lives and professions are different, what they have in common are the complexities of being a woman in a society in which they are made invisible.
In Her Place, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, October 11, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The cast also includes Francisca Lewin (Ramona), Marcial Tagle (El Conde), Pablo Macaya (Baby Bandito), and Gabriel Urzúa (Los Espookys).
Directed by Oscar® nominee Maite Alberdi (The Eternal Memory, The Mole Agent), the film, Alberdi’s first fiction feature, is written by Inés Bortagaray and Paloma Salas. The producers are Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, and Rocío Jadue, with Mariane Hartard, Sergio Karmy, and Cristián Donoso as executive producers.
A production of Fabula (El Conde, Los Espookys), In Her Place will launch in select cinemas in Chile in September, and compete in the official section at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which runs September 20-28, 2024, in San Sebastián, Spain.
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When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán (English translation of Las homicidas)
Las homicidas by Alia Trabucco Zerán
