Director Tatiana Huezo's atmospheric coming-of-age drama 'Prayers for the Stolen' focuses on a young girl and her two friends in rural Mexico.
In Tatiana Huezo’s evocative coming-of-age drama “Prayers for the Stolen,” a mountain town in Mexico under the thumb of the cartels is where girls have to reconcile the regular vicissitudes of growing up with the particular violence that hovers over them. Before a single image is shown, we hear the short, anguished breath of what sounds like a child in distress, but is actually both a grade-school-age girl and her mom, digging a hole as fast as their hands can work the earth.
The hole is for 9-year-old Ana to hide in when cartel men in their SUVs barrel up the winding roads to kidnap the town’s girls, even from the homes of families who work thefor them. The crude hideout could mean the difference between living and vanishing. But it’s no coincidence that one of the first shots Huezo gives us — a tight overhead view of Ana lying in the ground she just helped displace — looks less like a girl saving herself and more like someone being buried alive.
“Prayers,” Mexico’s submission to the Oscars for international feature film, is not always in so starkly threatening a mode. Its heart, in fact, is depicting Ana’s childhood in all its wonder, resilience and recognizable ache. She has a tight, affirming bond with her same-age friends Paula and Maria, and a turbulent relationship with her mother Rita , whose focus on protecting Ana has taken a psychic toll.
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