Ane Is Missing (2020) User Reviews

well played family drama

[tomdickson · 7/10 · 8 October 2021]

That dilema of childrearing espeially in a broken home. This drama takes us along a peth including basque country firey temperament. Its an insightful look at parenting when events have moved beyond the realm of the family and require external profesional assist.

The movie is delightfully grim in setying , acting and colour, does the sun ever shine on the basques?

Its deservedly won a few awards for its balance and truth to subject.

Intense and unsettling family drama about a distraught mother desperately searching for her missing daughter in Vitoria-Gasteiz

[ma-cortes · 6/10 · 27 September 2022]

A desperate mother called Lide (Patricia López Arnaiz) discovers that her teenager daughter (Ane Jone Laspiur) has gone missing and together with ex-husband Fernando (Mikel Losada) investigates her whereabouts throughout Vitoria and surroundings.

Family drama set in the tense Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2009. The protagonist Lide well played by Patricia López Arnaiz works as a security guard for one of the construction companies of the AVE that is going to unite the three provinces of Euskadi. Being set in a political-social situation marked by the outlawing of terrorist parties , the Kale Borroka and the last gasps of ETA and the radical opposition of the Aberzales groups to the high-speed train works. Lide is a courageous mother of a broken family , along the way she faces daily acts of vandalism suffered by her company and her conflicts with her ex-husband, Fernando . When Lide realizes that her teenage daughter Ane has not spent the night at home and starts looking for her, she will also discover that her daughter is a complete stranger. After defeating the Terrorist Organization ETA and renunciation of the armed struggle in 2011 , it brought new contributions in series and films that enrich the treatment of terrorism with more plural perspectives and greater freedom. Actually, already in 2008 there are at least three titles that anticipate the new approaches: ¨Todos Estamos Invitados¨ or We are all invited (M. Gutiérrez Aragón), ¨Un Tiro en la cabeza¨ or Shot in the head (Jaime Rosales) and ¨El Infierno Vasco¨ or The Basque Hell (Iñaki Arteta). We are referring to films that are thorny for democracy, such as ¨Lasa and Zabala¨ (Pablo Malo, 2014) about an ominous crime to chronicles that make just memory such as the documentary series by Jon Sistiaga ETA, ¨El final del Silencio¨ or the end of silence (2019) or the reconstruction of the beginnings of the terrorist band ¨La linea invisible¨ (Mariano Barroso, 2020), dramatizations with a desire to investigate the human condition, such as the series ¨Patria¨ (2020), even critical works by reduction to the absurd with a humorous mood, such as the tapes of Borja Cobeaga ¨Negotiator¨ (2014) and ¨Fe de Etarras¨ (2017).

The movie was acceptably but coldly directed by David Pérez Sañudo and following a realistic style. Premiered in San Sebastian to good critical acclaim, the film has won many awards and nominations , such as : Goya Awards 2021Winner Goya Best Lead Actress Patricia López Arnaiz , Best New Actress Jone Laspiur , Best Adapted Screenplay David Pérez Sañudo , Marina Parés Nominee Goya Best New Director David Pérez Sañudo. José María Forqué Awards 2021 Winner Best Actress Patricia López Arnaiz. San Sebastián International Film Festival 2020 Winner Best Basque Screenplay David Pérez Sañudo , Marina Parés , Winner Irizar Award Best Basque Film David Pérez Sañudo , Nominee Dunia Ayaso Award to David Pérez Sañudo. Sant Jordi Awards 2021 Winner Sant Jordi Best Actress in a Spanish Film Patricia López Arnaiz. Festival Abycine 2020 Winner Festival Prize Premio de la Asociación de la Prensa de Albacete David Pérez Sañudo. Días de Cine Awards 2021 Winner Best Spanish Actress Patricia López Arnaiz. Feroz Awards, ES 2021 Winner Best Actress in a Leading Role Patricia López Arnaiz , Feroz Award Best Screenplay Marina Parés , David Pérez Sañudo.

Ane is found.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 6/10 · 30 November 2021]

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.