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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 on Mendoza’s face — the infant is immediately whisked away for extra care. Geo is sent home to clear the bed for the next patient with instructions to return the following day. When she does, there is no sign of the premises or her baby. It’s as if her child has never been born.

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