Daniel And Ana -2009- Ok.ru · Original & Secure

Director Michel Franco, who would later go on to direct the equally disturbing Chronic (2015) and New Order (2020), employs a signature style here: detached, clinical long takes. He refuses to use music to manipulate emotion. The camera observes the characters’ disintegration from a cold distance, forcing the audience to sit in their discomfort.

On the surface, Daniel and Ana begins with a deceptively simple premise. Daniel (Dario Yazbek Bernal) and Ana (Marimar Vega) are a privileged brother and sister in Mexico City. They are close—perhaps too close for comfort, sharing a palpable, unsettling intimacy that flirts with taboo long before the inciting incident. Daniel And Ana -2009- Ok.ru

: The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009. Director Michel Franco, who would later go on