Georgina's newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.... (Full plot summary below)
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Georgina's newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
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| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerUnlike 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. |
| Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeThe film is strikingly fixated on exploring loss and pain on an intimate and personal scale. |
| EmpireIan FreerSong 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. |
| The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe narrative drifts, but the alienation communicated by the movie’s images feels purposeful and striking. |
| User Reviewbertobellamy'Song without Name' has many parallels with Alfonso Cuaron's Roma. Both use the tragic past of their nations to portray their unique stories. But unlike the Mexican film, Melina León's one explores the relationship between two individuals forgotten by the system. With beautiful black and white photography, good acting, and some mystery, this film represents a very solid debut for León. |
| User ReviewBrent_MarchantThis fact-based but atmospheric tale of the efforts of a young mother and a closeted journalist to uncover an infant selling ring in Peru during the country's political turmoil of the 1980s provides a unique take on a shocking news story told from a highly personal, exceedingly inventive perspective. With an excellent lead performance by Pamela Mendoza, gorgeous black-and-white cinematography and an ethereal original score, director Melina Leon's debut feature tells a captivating story all its own while simultaneously paying homage to Latin American political thrillers (most notably Chilean-based offerings like "Missing" and "Spider"), as well as tales of minority disenfranchisement and exploitation (such as Mexico's "Roma"). Admittedly, the film could use a little more back story for context, and it sometimes tries to do a little too much, with some story threads not fleshed out as thoroughly as they could be. Overall, though, this is a fine initial offering from another promising new talent, a filmmaker who clearly demonstrates a great deal of vision and imagination in telling a story that could have easily been presented much more conventionally in lesser skilled hands. |
