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Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.
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| CineVueChristopher MachellPrayers for the Stolen is fundamentally an account of powerlessness, of the insidious ways that forces act invisibly, immeasurably, and often horrifically on those with the least ability to resist them. |
| The PlaylistCarlos Aguilar"Prayers” stands as a continuation of [Huezo’s] brilliance and expands it to a storytelling format with distinct tools for engagement, yet the impact is just as searing. Huezo’s ardor for humanistic examination loses no fire in this metamorphosis. |
| VarietyJessica KiangThe film may be called “Prayers for the Stolen,” but it is much more a heartbroken lament for the circuits that are broken when the stealing happens, and for the spaces the stolen leave behind. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAs a portrait of a besieged community carrying on as best it can, the film is keenly observed, its character observations lucid and engrossing. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawA complex, subtle, tender and heart-rending story of a young girl’s upbringing in a village menaced by the drug cartels and people traffickers. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOf all of the things Tatiana Huezo captures in Prayers for the Stolen, her first narrative feature, the terror of the night is most unnerving. |
| Screen DailyWendy IdeHuezo’s picture, which is loosely adapted from a novel by Jennifer Climent, is distinctive in its child’s-eye-view of this most abnormal of normalities. |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonThere’s a haunting beauty to Tatiana Huezo’s depiction of the gradual cross-contamination of childhood innocence and criminal aggression. |
| IndieWireSusannah GruderTold through the lens of three girls as they grow up in a rural town in the Guerrero mountains, Huezo’s film is a murky, mesmerizing look at what it feels like to come of age in a place where young women have a target on their backs, and where the adults are as powerless as the children. |
| Little White LiesMarina AshiotiHuezo’s background as a documentary filmmaker is clear in the way this debut narrative feature so solemnly and matter-of-factly observes a community that exists beyond this fictional ‘slice of life’ representation. |
