By Mónica Delgado

Beyond the well-known phrase “based in real events” that appears at the beginning, Melina León’s Canción sin nombre (Song without a name) is a film which creates nebulous and saddened atmospheres of a Lima amidst political chaos in the eighties. Made in 4:3, this almost squared vision, is used to good purpose from the introduction, a sort of presentation that gives the sensation that being inside a T.V. screen, with textures that imitate 8mm film that show newspapers’ headlines with news of that decade, or with scenes, like the former president Alan García Perez (now deceased by suicide), one of the responsible of the hiper inflation in the country, and the moral and social drama the characters live.