Yara (2021)

A darling 13-year old teen girl, a sweet girl into dancing, is abducted on her way home after a dance class on a wintry Italian evening. Some worthless thug has attacked her. We see the event in a series of flashbacks. After a few months, her body is discovered. It is up to the PROSECUTOR, who has been hunting for the young lady in hope, to find & punish the perpetrator. The Prosecutor is one determined lady, with girls of her own.

However, there were no witnesses to the abduction, and, unlike the U. K., no traffic cameras recording events in the streets of every town. They have biological evidence, but, unlike the USA, no criminal database of DNA. So, what do you do? You do what the Brits did, in their first big DNA case, and you run a DNA roundup of the locals. The Italian lab guys appear to be excellent (unlike the early Russian ones, who let a serial killer kill 20 more kids by not matching correctly). And, eventually, you figure out whodunit. He can yell all he wants, but DNA don't lie. May none of us, who love these DNA cases, ever have OUR DNA found in the private areas of a dead young female. Our perpetrator here has a pretty wife, nice kids, a good job, etc. What's up? Perusing the wrong websites, we opine.

This was a low-key, almost docu-drama type of approach with first-class performances all around. 9/10.. might be 10/10 in the original language.. I opted for English with sub-titles and the inflexion of the actors was a bit pedestrian. .. but just a bit..

Fmovies: An above average movie with competent performances by everyone. However it would have been better if it was edited a bit more tightly thus reducing its length by 10-15 minutes. If you enjoy watching true stories involving the justice system,then you should not miss this film 6/10.

Thoroughly enjoyed this production which has excellent cast and is well scripted and directed. Visually exciting and with much more beautiful detectives and court prosecutors than we have in the UK. If I'm going to be arrested for anything I'd like it to be in Italy.

The fact that this is a factual case makes it all the more watchable but one can't help but wonder if true justice was meted out in the end.

I'd watch it again.

Yara fmovies. Excellent production starts out snappy and well-constructed but loses focus towards the end. This may be a result of the nature of the true story taking several years to come to a conclusion. Not sure how the filmmakers could have solved this but a stronger soundtrack would have helped. This is not to say the music isn't good when it happens, it's very good, but the film needed more to fill in the gaps caused by the disjointed timeline of the case. Everyone on screen is very good.

This film has no fiction, but a lot about the reality of gender violence. A teenager disappeared in Bergamo, a city in northern Italy, capital of the homonymous province and part of the Lombardy region. In fact, she was kidnapped by the end of 2010, weeks later she was found dead in an open field on the outskirts of Bergamo. That shook Italy, so the police took the task of investigating the incident with very little chance of discovering the culprit, unless the necessary resources were put in place for this purpose and develop a thorough investigation. This was what the prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri set out to investigate for years and with traditional methods. Fortunately, we live in a world where there is scientific development in the field of molecular biology; it is known what a gene is, a short segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and an important part of the chromosomes. They tell us as a whole the hereditary material of the human body and the way it works. Therefore, there was no need for the services of Sherlock Holmes or detective Philip Marlowe. The film clearly shows the political baseness and the entanglements of an opposition to harm those responsible for the investigation, and as usual, without proposing any other alternative to get the truth of the case.

This was an interesting movie to watch, but it was so poorly edited and told, that continuity was often lacking. It does keep you engrossed enough to stick with it until the very end. It's a sad movie that deals with a not uncommon theme.