Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
3.8 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 50min
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- Synopsis:
In Tatiana Huezo's evocative coming-of-age drama "Prayers for the Stolen", a mountain town in Mexico under the thumb of the cartels is where girls have to reconcile the regular vicissitudes of growing up with the particular violence that hovers over them. Before a single image is shown, we hear the short, anguished breath of what sounds like a child in distress, but is actually both a grade-school-age girl and her mom, digging a hole as fast as their hands can work the earth. The hole is for 9-year-old Ana (Ana Cristina Ordóñez González / Marya Membreño) to hide in when cartel men in their SUVs barrel up the winding roads to kidnap the town's girls, even from the homes of families who work the poppy harvest for them. The crude hideout could mean the difference between living and vanishing. But it's no coincidence that one of the first shots Huezo gives us - a tight overhead view of Ana lying in the ground she just helped displace - looks less like a girl saving herself and more like someone being buried alive. - Actors:
- Memo Villegas, Mayra Batalla, Alejandra Camacho, Teresa Sánchez, Ana Cristina Ordóñez González, Marya Membreño, Eileen Yañez, Norma Pablo, David Illescas, Blanca Itzel Pérez, Julián Guzmán Girón, Camila Gaal, Olivia Lagunas, Gabriela Núñez, Giselle Barrera Sánchez, Tiago Sann, Daniela Arroio, José Estrada, Uriel Rodríguez Hernández, Horacio Celestino
- Directors:
- Tatiana Huezo
- Producers:
- Nicolás Celis, Jim Stark
- Writers:
- Jennifer Clement, Tatiana Huezo
- Aka:
- Noche de fuego
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Drama
- Countries:
- Mexico
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