'Prayers for the Stolen' ('Noche de Fuego'): Film Review
‘Prayers for the Stolen’ (‘Noche de Fuego’): Film Review | Cannes 2021 Sheri Linden FIRE NIGHT Bright red flowers dot a hillside in a remote Mexican town, and the air is abuzz with the songs of insects and birds. But beneath the bucolic beauty, as in many of the striking scenes in Prayers for the Stolen, terror churns. “Liberally adapted” from Jennifer Clement’s 2014 novel of the same name, the film delves, with sensitivity and alarm, into the constant threat of violence for those living in the cross-fire of Mexico’s drug cartels, particularly women and their...
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