Who Killed Eloá?
MovieTitle | Quem Matou Eloá? |
User score | 8.7 |
Release date | Sep 3, 2015 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Lívia Perez |
Production country | Brazil |
Production companies | Doctela / Pietà Filmes |
Run time | 24 min. |
In 2008, a young man broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment, holding her and her friend hostage at gunpoint for five days. The so-called "crime of passion" was covered live and rabidly followed like a perverse telenovela. This film's pointed analysis of the Brazilian police and media's sensationalization of violence against women sadly explains the country's elevated rate of femicide.