-By Ray Bennett
For movie details, please click here.
Michel Franco's prurient and off-putting little film
Daniel
& Ana is about a teenage brother and slightly older sister
in Mexico City, who are kidnapped and forced to have sex with each
other for a video camera.
The camera lingers unnecessarily on the attractive characters as
they are made to disrobe and couple at the risk of death from three
hoodlums. The siblings are released afterward and do not report the
crime.
They deal with the event differently, with soon-to-be-married Ana
(Marimar Vega) seeking help from a psychologist to put it behind
her and formerly shy and caring 17-year-old Daniel (Dario Yazbek
Bernal) developing a raging lust for his sister. A scene in which
Daniel brutally rapes Ana also is overly indulgent.
Suspense builds as Daniel becomes increasingly possessive of Ana
and jealous of her fiancé, and the youth goes to their wedding
ceremony and reception bearing a newly purchased and deadly-looking
knife.
The film's titillating subject matter and sex scenes could find
some box-office return, but audiences will puzzle over such things
as an absence of motive for the kidnappers. Using the video for
blackmail seems the most obvious, but the kidnappers are never seen
or heard from again.
-
The Hollywood Reporter
Film Review: Daniel & Ana
Unpleasant movie about siblings forced to make love to each other.
Aug 26, 2010
-By Ray Bennett
For movie details, please click here.
Michel Franco's prurient and off-putting little film
Daniel & Ana is about a teenage brother and slightly older sister in Mexico City, who are kidnapped and forced to have sex with each other for a video camera.
The camera lingers unnecessarily on the attractive characters as they are made to disrobe and couple at the risk of death from three hoodlums. The siblings are released afterward and do not report the crime.
They deal with the event differently, with soon-to-be-married Ana (Marimar Vega) seeking help from a psychologist to put it behind her and formerly shy and caring 17-year-old Daniel (Dario Yazbek Bernal) developing a raging lust for his sister. A scene in which Daniel brutally rapes Ana also is overly indulgent.
Suspense builds as Daniel becomes increasingly possessive of Ana and jealous of her fiancé, and the youth goes to their wedding ceremony and reception bearing a newly purchased and deadly-looking knife.
The film's titillating subject matter and sex scenes could find some box-office return, but audiences will puzzle over such things as an absence of motive for the kidnappers. Using the video for blackmail seems the most obvious, but the kidnappers are never seen or heard from again.
-
The Hollywood Reporter
