After years of on-screen successes led by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, female directors are making their mark with urgent, disquieting cinema
, is an equally chilling study of sadistic machismo. As a growing feminist movement rises in Mexico in response to the country’s alarming rates of femicide, Melchor and this group of contemporary film-makers stand out as key voices in leading the cultural response.
Whereas Melchor’s work is shocking in its depiction of violence, Prayers for the Stolen adopts a more sensorial approach. “It’s a film that has a really strong sense of dread within the violence that underpins the story, and it was very important for me to build this fear that the girls and their mothers feel, how it destroys a person from the inside out,” Huezo says. “But I chose the path of not being explicit because violence is something that we see every day in Mexico.
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