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Song Without a Name

Canción sin nombre

2019

Melina León

Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas, Ruth Armas ...

6.5

432

Drama Georgina Condori is a heavily pregnant Andean peasant woman living in a bare wooden shack in a coastal shanty town close to the capital, Lima. Lured into the city by a radio advert promising free “medical assistance”, she gives birth to her baby at a downtown clinic. The staff take her newborn daughter away, apparently for routine checks, but never return her.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Light on narrative detail but still a bold, beautiful debut (...) [It] is beautifully composed, with gorgeous monochrome visuals and rich musical layers."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A potent account of a period in Peruvian history which has left scars which persist to this day."	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"From a narrative point of view, this 'Song' misses a couple of notes, with a few too many strands left, well, stranded in melancholy limbo. Atmospherically, however, it’s lilting and full."	NEU
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"The aesthetic also gives the movie the look of a film noir, and that is fitting (...) It’s a marvellous debut"	POS
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"The narrative drifts, but the alienation communicated by the movie’s images feels purposeful and striking."	NEU
United States	Steven Scaife Slant	"The film is strikingly fixated on exploring loss and pain on an intimate and personal scale"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An intimately painful and quite terrifying drama (...) This is a very tough watch, all but unbearable, but it has tragic force (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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