2024 · documentary
Daughters (2024)
Directed by Natalie Rae, Angela Patton1h 48m2024
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.
Our read: Daughters (2024) (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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