The film's horrifying experience looms over each well-constructed frame without anywhere to go.
Daniel & Ana
Mexico, Spain · 2009
1h 30m
Director Michel Franco
Starring Dario Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, Josemaría Torre-Hütt, Monserrat Ontiveros
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Daniel and Ana are a brother and sister who belong to a wealthy family in Mexico City. One day they are both kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to act in an illegal pornographic video. Though physically unharmed, both are traumatized and must try their best to recover.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
This stylistic restraint may help deflect accusations of exploitation (though the film's two pivotal sex scenes both feel uncomfortably extended, the initial crime lasting a squirm-inducing six minutes), but it also impedes our connection with the victims.
The screenplay leaves it to the audience to map the psychological terrain, which will frustrate some but thrill others who prefer oblique storytelling.
Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe
This film is only for those with strong constitutions and a penchant for painstaking details.
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