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- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
- Netflix
- 1 h 42 m
Daughters
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
82
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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This is far from the sort of cinematic experience one revisits time and time again, and it’s clear that’s not the intention; one viewing is all it takes to leave a lasting impression, like the simple memory of a young girl dancing with her dad.
Daughters culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail. But its real potency, as both a portrait of families riven by incarceration and a call to action on prisoners’ rights, lies in what comes before and after.
The film is rife with visually lyrical moments that connect viewers with the young ones’ sorrows, fears, insights and hopes.
Despite the sentimental score, which unnecessarily ramps up the emotion, Daughters is honest about the fact that this programme is not a magic bullet, just one important step on the road to change.
The film’s free-flowing, sometimes experimental structure proves evocative.
Despite not ending on its strongest note, Daughters is still a highly effective documentary overall. Working with subjects this young and topics this sensitive can be challenging, and you always run the risk of feeling exploitative, but Daughters handles both with compassion and care.
Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s Daughters targets viewers squarely and simultaneously in the head and the heart, succeeding much more effectively at the latter, presumably with the hope that the former will follow.
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Production Company
Object & Animal,
Black Box Management,
Epoch Films,
OPC,
Park Pictures,
XTR
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Miami Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination