As the excellent Til Freddy (2020-also reviewed) wrapped up my time with the superb Cine-Excess Film Festival this year,I started looking for other festivals taking place online. Finding the International Leeds Film Festival to have just started,I quickly set off to find Ane.
View on the film:
Reuniting with her ex-husband Fernando to search for their missing daughter, co-writer (with Marina Pares ) director David Perez Sanudo goes from shorts and TV episodes to making his feature film debut by closely working with cinematographer Victor Benavides to stylishly carve an on the edge Thriller atmosphere, keeping the camera up-close to Lide, (played with a brittle determination by Patricia Lopez Arnaiz) in long takes spanning the couple going down every side-street in search of their daughter.
Filmed in the Basque Country, Sanudo crosses the Thriller missing person panic,with a striking social realism, via holding the search for Ane across real locations, where eerie long, lingering wide-shots and coiled tracking shots, creating the appearance that Lide and Fernando looking for Ane, is just like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Placing an emphasis on the social realism aspect, the screenplay by Sanudo & Pares plays out as oddly detached, keeping a distance on the desperation of finding Ane, to instead get caught up in side-tracks with Basque Country residence,which drains the Thriller tension, and leads to a peculiar, frosty family reunion with Ane.
View on the film:
Reuniting with her ex-husband Fernando to search for their missing daughter, co-writer (with Marina Pares ) director David Perez Sanudo goes from shorts and TV episodes to making his feature film debut by closely working with cinematographer Victor Benavides to stylishly carve an on the edge Thriller atmosphere, keeping the camera up-close to Lide, (played with a brittle determination by Patricia Lopez Arnaiz) in long takes spanning the couple going down every side-street in search of their daughter.
Filmed in the Basque Country, Sanudo crosses the Thriller missing person panic,with a striking social realism, via holding the search for Ane across real locations, where eerie long, lingering wide-shots and coiled tracking shots, creating the appearance that Lide and Fernando looking for Ane, is just like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Placing an emphasis on the social realism aspect, the screenplay by Sanudo & Pares plays out as oddly detached, keeping a distance on the desperation of finding Ane, to instead get caught up in side-tracks with Basque Country residence,which drains the Thriller tension, and leads to a peculiar, frosty family reunion with Ane.