#identifying features

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Identifying Features ('Sin señas particulares', 2020 🇲🇽)

Directed by Fernanda Valadez Cinematography by Claudia Becerril Bulos

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new-to-me #878 - Sin señas particulares (Identifying Features)

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Sin Señas Particulares / Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez, 2020)

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Sin señas particulares (2021) Directora: Fernanda Valadez, Actores: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez, Armando García.

Invitado por mi novia a verla (lo cual es el honor más grande), Sin señas particulares es la película ganadora de los reconocimientos de Mejor Película, Mejor Actriz, y Mejor Película Mexicana del Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia.

En un ejido de Guanajuato Magdalena vive pobremente con su hijo: trabajan la parcela y comen de lo que logran sacarle. Su hijo, con el hartazgo de un horizonte en el que sólo alcanza a ver la posibilidad de trabajar la tierra para siempre, decide contarle que tiene planes para irse a Estados Unidos con un amigo, lo deja ir, y es cuando deja de tener noticias suyas que empieza a buscarlo: encuentran el cadáver del amigo, pero no el de Jesús, y es entonces que su madre empieza un viaje plagado de peligros e incertidumbre con la esperanza casi inexistente de, al menos, saber qué fue lo que le pasó.

En un mundo donde la justicia no existe, donde la única certidumbre es la de saber si un ser humano vivió o murió, esta película desenvuelve su herramienta narrativa más poderosa: la verdad; la verdad que millones de mexicanos viven todos los días ante una sensación asfixiante que causa la vida misma, el miedo de todos los días, de no saber si vamos a llegar a salvo a casa de noche, de no saber quién nos sigue en la calle, o quién nos echó el ojo en el camión, esta incertidumbre y este miedo, muchas veces convertido en fetiche y alimentado por el morbo hollywoodense, es traducido por Valadez como el sentimiento más puro y verdadero que se encuentra en su centro: un terror abismal y agobiante, que te deja helado y te impide moverte. La actuación de Hernández es sorprendente, su valentía y miedo son dos cosas opuestas, ambas a las que logra sobreponerse para, a tientas, seguir adelante con lo que la impulsa: el amor a su hijo.

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#232. Identifying Features - Fernanda Valadez

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12 MOVIES WORTH CHECKING OUT - NORTH AMERICA RELEASES JAN. 2021

1982 (2019) dir. Oualid Mouaness - During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict. -  Release Date (Theaters):Jan 19, 2021 - RT & IMDb

The Human Factor (2019) dir. Dror Moreh - The epic behind-the-scenes story of the United States' 30-year effort to secure peace in the Middle East. Recounted from the unique perspective of the American mediators on the frontlines. -  Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Identifying Features (2020) dir. Fernanda Valadez - A woman tries to find her son's whereabouts after he leaves Mexico to find work in the United States. - Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Our Friend (2020) dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite -  After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home. -  Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Psycho Goreman (2020) dir. Steven Kostanski - After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding. - Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020) dir. Lili Horvát - A neurosurgeon returns to Budapest to reunite with the love of her life: a man who says they have never met. -  Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Notturno (2020) dir. Gianfranco Rosi - Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East. - Release Date (Theaters): 22 January 2021 - RT & IMDb

You Will Die at Twenty (2019) dir. Amjad Abu Alala - Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19. - Release Date (Theaters):Jan 22, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Supernova (2020) dir. Harry Macqueen - Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have. - Release Date (Theaters): Jan 29, 2021 - RT & IMDb

The Night (2020) dir. Kourosh Ahari - An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends. - Release Date (Theaters): Jan 29, 2021 - RT & IMDb

Dear Comrades! (2020) dir. Andrey Konchalovskiy - When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. -  Release Date (Theaters):Jan 29, 2021 - RT & IMDb

True Mothers (2020) dir. Naomi Kawase - A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother. - Release Date (Theaters): Jan 29, 2021 - RT & IMDb