Movie #1746 ........................."In the Time of the Butterflies"

Movie #1746 "In the Time of the Butterflies" --- saw this at the library and since I had read the Julia Alvarez book and enjoyed it, I thought I'd like to see if the movie was as good, and I think it is.  Selma Hayek is the star and Minerva Mirabel, who gets the eye of the dictator Trujillo (Dominican Republic) when she is young, and he expects her to do things for him when he pays her way to be a lawyer --- she succeeds graduating, but he prevents her from every getting a job, and he tortures her and her husband for trying to fight his repression of their people.  She and her sisters are killed in a field and have become heroines of the country's fight for freedom.  And this film does the women justice --- it shows their plight, their flight and their fight for freedom.  Good film, but disclaimer:  there are some router scenes (the book had much more!)  I give this a 4.


"IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES"   PG-13     1 hour 35 minutes    2001

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.

Director:

 Mariano Barroso

Writers:

 Julia Álvarez (novel), Judy Klass (teleplay)  |1 more credit »

Stars:

 Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Edward James Olmos