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26 Feb 2021 Song Without A Name is a belter. Peru’s entry for this year’s Oscars, the debut of writer-director Melina León delivers on the promise of the set-up a gripping investigation into a missing baby but layers on different textures, from documentary realism to nightmarish visions set against a backdrop of traditional Peruvian village culture. Shot in mesmeric black-and-white and with few trappings of the modern world, it has a timeless quality (it’s actually set in 1988) combined with a compelling urgency that keeps it in the here and now. After an opening montage of news footage establishing the tumultuous political context, the story centres on Geo (Pamela Mendoza), a poor, pregnant Quechua villager who gets by selling potatoes on the street and living in a shack with her equally overworked husband Leo (Lucio Rojas). Hearing an ad on the radio, she discovers a clinic providing free maternity care. As the baby is born the camera remains unflinchingly ....
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Critically Acclaimed Award-Winning Drama “Song Without a Name” Named as the Oscar® Entry for Peru January 19, 2021 GMT LOS ANGELES (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 19, 2021 “ Song Without a Name ” (“Canción sin nombre”), a critically acclaimed, award-winning drama directed by Melina León, has been announced as Peru’s International Feature Film entry for the 93 rd Academy Awards ®. León becomes the third Peruvian female director to represent Peru at the Oscars ® since 1967, when the country first started to submit its films to the awards, following in the footsteps of Claudia Llosa, whose “The Milk of Sorrow” at the 82 nd Academy Awards ® became the first and only Peruvian film to ever receive a nomination. ....