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Who is Dayani Cristal? (12A)

Documentary

An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.

More information on this production is available at whoisdayanicristal.com.

The critical consensus

The ill-conceived structure and Bernal's anomalous presence sadly diminishes the impact of the material.

**(*)(*)(*)Alan Laidlaw, The List, 22/07/2014

Bernal does his best to bring the film's detective work alive, but the presence of a big star somewhat overbalances this tragic story.

***(*)(*)Kim Newman, Empire Online, 21/07/2014

Bernal seems sincere but he’s playing a role he can step out of, which distracts from Silver’s deeper ambitions: to humanise and anatomise a heated political issue.

***(*)(*)Kevin Harley, Total Film, 21/07/2014

Marc Silver’s documentary is correctly outraged, if sometimes lacking focus.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 20/07/2014

Leaves a legacy of tenacious empathy for dead migrant workers.

Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 24/07/2014

Only the most callous anti-immigration zealot could fail to find these stories poignant, but there's something awkwardly artificial about the dramatised strand, in which ordinary folks strain to pretend they don't know Bernal is a film star with a camera crew in tow.

Leslie Felperin, The Guardian, 24/07/2014

Where and when?

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday July 25, 2014, until Tuesday July 29, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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