Just Walking
Just Walking, also known as Walking Vengeance, is a 2008 Spanish-Mexican crime thriller film directed and written by Agustín Díaz Yanes. Its cast includes Ariadna Gil, Diego Luna, Victoria Abril, Pilar López de Ayala, Elena Anaya, and José María Yazpik.
The film was nominated for eleven Goya Awards, winning one.
Plot
After a failed jewellery heist, Aurora Rodriguez is caught and sentenced to eight years in prison, while her three accomplices get away. Aurora's sister, prostitute Ana, meets a powerful Mexican drug lord Felix during a job and agrees to marry him. While Paloma leverages her connections as a court secretary to influence a judge into reducing Aurora's sentence to four years, Gloria joins Ana in Mexico and discovers that Felix has been brutally abusing Ana.Just as Ana reveals to Gloria that she intends to get back at Felix by stealing all his money, Felix viciously beats Ana in a fit of rage. He leaves her barely alive and hospitalized. Paloma secures Aurora's release from prison and they join Gloria and Ana in Mexico, where the four women set Ana's plan in motion. Meanwhile, Felix's right-hand man Gabriel has spent twenty years waiting to take revenge on his father, currently in prison for beating Gabriel's mother to death. Though Gabriel begins developing suspicions towards what Aurora and her friends are planning, Felix's violent behavior causes him to question his unwavering loyalty to his childhood friend.
Awards and nominations
Won
Cinema Writers Circle Awards- Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Best Cinematography
Nominated
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Best Cinematography
- Best Director
- Best Film
- Best Screenplay - Original
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Best Director
- Best Film
- Best Editing
- Best Production Supervision
- Best Screenplay - Original
- Best Sound Pierre Gamet, Patrice Grisolet and Christophe Vingtrinier)
- Best Visual Effects