From tribeca "07:
Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi's "Black Butterfly" is set in 2000, during the last days of the corrupt regime of President Alberto Fujimori, who had engineered the massacre of Indians as a way of containing the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. The most powerful politician in the country, however, was Vladimir Montesinos, who was also a blackmailer and assassin. The film is about a pretty young teacher whose fiance, a judge, Montesinos ordered killed. To exact revenge, she reinvents herself as a girl-for-hire to get near him. Black Butterfly is okay as a thriller, but Lombardi's relentless lesbiphobia is odious. Eytan Fox has always drawn a parallel between homophobia and other forms of injustice. He could teach Lombardi a thing or two.
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