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Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico s missing people | Movies

Sun 2 May 2021 06.00 EDT Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez’s piercing feature debut is a sensitive exploration of her country’s missing persons crisis. Some 70,000 people have disappeared in Mexico in the past 15 years, and so Valadez reframes a faceless problem as a series of intersecting human stories. Single mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández) is able to identify her missing son’s bag but not his body. Unwilling to pronounce him dead, she searches for him across desolate landscapes, guided by recent deportee Miguel (David Illescas). A sunrise stains a lake pink, a violent flashback is blurry and unsubtitled; Valadez’s expressionist images give texture to the abstract emotions of rage and pain.

Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico s missing people

Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico’s missing people Simran Hans Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez’s piercing feature debut is a sensitive exploration of her country’s missing persons crisis. Some 70,000 people have disappeared in Mexico in the past 15 years, and so Valadez reframes a faceless problem as a series of intersecting human stories. Single mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández) is able to identify her missing son’s bag but not his body. Unwilling to pronounce him dead, she searches for him across desolate landscapes, guided by recent deportee Miguel (David Illescas). A sunrise stains a lake pink, a violent flashback is blurry and unsubtitled; Valadez’s expressionist images give texture to the abstract emotions of rage and pain.

Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico s missing people

Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico s missing people
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Where’s it on? Digital platforms, DVD and Blu-ray Here’s another story of the modern west, this time more like a genre movie. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner play grandparents in 1960s Montana – the Blackledges. Their son dies, leaving a wife and young son. But when the widow remarries into the unruly Weboy family, and they witness her being physically abused by her new husband, the grieving Blackledges become fearful for their grandson’s safety and travel to the Weboy homestead in North Dakota to confront the family. In a deliciously offbeat piece of casting, regent of the Weboy roost is our own Lesley Manville, who gives a film-stealingly colourful turn as malevolent matriarch Blanche Weboy. Tripling down on her Mrs Danvers routine in Phantom Thread (2017), Manville lords it terrifyingly over her brutish brood of wrong-’un kids. She’s queen bee of the rednecks, and she’ll stop at nothing to protect her own. This handsome and pleasingly o

Identifying Features review: a mother s search for her

Identifying Features is available to watch on BFI Player. “What did he gain by leaving?” Two months have passed since Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) left his small town in central Mexico on foot with his friend Rodrigo to search for work across the US border. Having heard no word from the teenager since, his mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández) sets out on a journey to find her son and uncover the truth.  As of November 2020, the Mexican government reported over 75,000 missing citizens. Thousands more so reported every year are eventually found, not always alive. Migrants crossing the country towards the US border often fall prey to criminal cartels while others are kidnapped from their homes and extorted for money or brutally assaulted and left for dead. With morgues piling up with unidentified bodies and little support from government authorities, families are often left to investigate on their own or perform the grim task of digging the ground to searc

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