Daughters is a documentary that follows four young girls and their incarcerated fathers as they prepare for a Father/Daughter dance as part of a unique program at a DC prison. Through casual interviews, fly-on-the-wall footage, and clips from home movies humanity, hope, and struggle are explored.
The cinematography is at once lyric and incredibly evocative, there's a sense of weaving together artistic imagery with incredibly vulnerable and true emotion. The visuals work in concert with the subtle but potent score to kind of mainline the complicated and beautiful themes. Its extremely potent, at times transcendental. Reminiscent in feel, if not in concept or execution, to Netflix's 2021 best-of-the-year doc Procession in that it has it all- honesty, pathos, hope, compassion- and manages not to be brutal or depressing but modestly uplifting even celebratory, not at the cost of the realities or the socio-political messaging but in spotlighting the absolute beauty and endurance of the human spirit, in the inspiring and inevitable way we as humans connect and move forward despite unavoidable hardship. That struggle and challenge, accepted and faced and moved through, is how we grow and become.
A passionate and poignant must see, a denunciation of fear.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
Don't Miss It.
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