Film Review: Song Without a Name
In director Melina León's debut, a woman's personal tragedy speaks to the wider costs of Peru’s internal conflict in the 1980s.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on closing the gender gap Cries flood a clandestine clinic in the Peruvian highlands An indigenous Quechua woman, Georgina (Pamela Mendoza), is forcefully separated from her newborn daughter What follows is a tragedy repeated untold times in the tumult of Peru in the 1980s, dramatized here in spellbinding black-and-white by first-time director Melina León Informed by real-life cases of child smuggling during Peru’s internal conflict with the Shining Path and other guerrilla groups, Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre) depicts...
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