Unlike Alfonso Cuarón's critically-lauded "Roma," which somehow managed to reduce its indigenous protagonist to a passive observer in her own life, Song Without a Name never loses sight of Georgina's pain or her agency - or its limits.
Song Without a Name(Canción sin nombre)
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Peru, United States · 2020
1h 37m
Director Melina León
Starring Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas, Maykol Hernández
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Peru is at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s, and her desperate search for her daughter leads her to a journalist named Pedro Campos, who agrees to help with the investigation. Based on a true story.
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Song Without A Name is a true original, at once rooted in a raw emotional reality but told with the striking beauty of a dream. Writer-director Melina León is definitely one to watch.
Slant Magazine by Steven Scaife
The film is strikingly fixated on exploring loss and pain on an intimate and personal scale.
The New York Times by Teo Bugbee
The narrative drifts, but the alienation communicated by the movie’s images feels purposeful and striking.
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