The Daughter (Spanish: La hija) is a 2021 Spanish thriller drama film directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca, which stars Javier Gutiérrez, Patricia López Arnaiz and Irene Virgüez.

Plot

Irene is a teenage girl living in a youth detention center who has just got pregnant. She is offered to live with Javier and Adela (a couple desperate to have a child) in a remote house in the mountains in exchange for the baby.

Cast

• Javier Gutiérrez as Javier.
• Patricia López Arnaiz as Adela.
• Irene Virgüez as Irene.

Production

The Daughter was written by Manuel Martín Cuenca and Alejandro Hernández based on a horror-oriented original story by Félix Vidal.

The film was produced by MOD Producciones, La Loma Blanca PC, and La Hija Producciones La Película AIE, with the participation of RTVE, Canal Sur Radio y Televisión and Movistar+, funding from the ICAA and Arcano Financiación Audiovisual, support from A.A.II.CC. and the sponsoring of the Diputación Provincial de Jaén. The score was composed and performed by Vetusta Morla.

Fully shot in the province of Jaén, filming locations included the provincial capital (Jaén) as well as the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park. The fictional couple s house in the mountains was located in the so-called Llanos del Peral.

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on 13 September 2021. It also screened at the 69th San Sebastián International Film Festival later in the month. Distributed by Caramel Films, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 26 November 2021.

Reception

Janire Zurbano of Cinemanía gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that while lacking the rhythm and plot-turns of other Martín Cuenca s films such as Cannibal and The Motive, the almost theatrical mise-en-scène and the visual power of the landscapes put tension and pressure on the viewers; cornering them to identify with the protagonists.

Beatriz Martínez of Fotogramas gave the film 5 out of 5 stars, considering the film a masterpiece of contemporary Spanish cinema, a film as shocking as it is memorable, as a macabre fable .

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film 60 out of 100 points, considering that—despite praising the exquisite cinematography, the composition of the shots, the score and the performances of the adults—it was a slow, predictable and boring film and that the child actress performance was subpar.

Quim Casas of El Periódico de Catalunya gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that the elegant and austere filmmaking plays well on its setting and the reduced number of characters.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2021	34th ASECAN Awards	Best Film		Won
		Best Director	Manuel Martín Cuenca	Won
		Best Screenplay	Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández	Won
2022	9th Feroz Awards	Best Original Score	Vetusta Morla	Nominated
	1st Carmen Awards	Best Fiction Feature Film	La Loma Blanca PC	Won
		Best Direction	Manuel Martín Cuenca	Won
		Best Screenplay	Alejandro Hernández, Manuel Martín Cuenca	Won
		Best Production Supervision	Ernesto Chao	Nominated
		Best Makeup and Hairstyles	Yolanda Piña	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Juan Carlos Villanueva	Nominated
	77th CEC Medals	Best Director	Manuel Martín Cuenca	Nominated
		Best Actor	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated
	36th Goya Awards	Best Director	Manuel Martín Cuenca	Nominated
		Best Actor	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated
	30th Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Film Actor in a Leading Role	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated

Yes, God, Yes is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Karen Maine and starring Natalia Dyer. It is Maine s directorial debut, based on her 2017 short film of the same name also starring Dyer. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on March 8, 2019. It was released in selected drive-in theaters and virtual cinemas on July 24, 2020, before launching digitally and on video on demand on July 28, 2020. The film was made available on Netflix on October 22, 2020.

Plot

It is the fall of 2000. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school, where Father Murphy instructs her Morality class that any sexual activity not aimed toward procreation within a heterosexual marriage is a sin, with eternal damnation as punishment. She struggles with accepting her burgeoning feelings of sexual desire after both Father Murphy and her best friend, Laura, cause her to feel ashamed of them.

The following Monday, the school is abuzz with a rumor that Alice tossed the salad of a classmate, Wade, at Laura s party over the weekend. Alice denies this, admitting to not knowing what the phrase means. The rumor reaches Mrs. Veda, who prevents Alice from serving at Mass. Later that day, during the sacrament of reconciliation, Alice confesses venial sins to Father Murphy and receives a light penance of twenty prayers, which she immediately and fervently fulfills in the school chapel, Father Murphy and Mrs. Veda s words about sex echoing in her mind.

Alice and Laura both decide to attend the school s next Kirkos spiritual retreat— Alice to return to the path of righteousness, and Laura to be accepted by Nina, a popular senior. When they arrive on the retreat campgrounds, Laura is excited to find that Nina is a retreat leader, while Alice eyes Chris, a hunky senior who is also a retreat leader. Chris is friendly and enthusiastic, and after Alice is assigned to his group, the two begin to bond. That night, while playing on her contraband cell phone, Alice accidentally discovers that she can pleasure herself using her phone s vibrating feature; however, she stops soon after looking at the crucifix hanging in her room.

On the second day of the retreat, Alice fakes an injury on a hike to get closer to Chris. Nina confiscates Alice s phone; and, as a punishment, Father Murphy assigns Alice to cleaning duties around the retreat house. Once she is alone, she logs onto an AOL chat room from Father Murphy s office computer to ask what tossing salad means; before she can find out, the sound of footsteps causes her to hastily shut off the computer and leave. She runs into Nina, who lightheartedly guilts Alice about Alice s presumed sexual encounter with Wade, another instance of Alice s inability to be free of the rumor even while on Jesus s time.

On the third day of the retreat, Father Murphy announces his discovery of an explicit chat on his computer; of course, no one claims responsibility. He later pushes Alice to confess to acting on her sexual temptations with Wade, and doesn t believe her insistence that nothing happened. Alice confronts Wade about his complicity in the rumor s spread by failing to deny it, and he leaves without admitting his fault or apologizing. Again on cleaning duty, Alice witnesses Nina kissing, then fellating, another senior leader in the woods; Alice shares this with Laura, who refuses to believe Alice, accuses Alice of breaking into Father Murphy s office, and ends their friendship, calling Alice a pervy psycho. Alice returns to Father Murphy s office and frames Wade for the earlier break-in; while hiding to make her escape, she catches Father Murphy masturbating to a pornographic video saved on his computer. Outside, finding herself alone with Chris, Alice kisses him, but he becomes overwhelmed and runs away. That night, Alice flees the campgrounds and stumbles upon a lesbian bar, where she and the owner, Gina, commiserate about how the fear of damnation can warp an adolescent s development. Gina counsels Alice and gives her a ride back to the retreat, encouraging Alice to look into colleges on the West and East Coasts and finally assuaging Alice s curiosity about what tossing salad means.

On the last day of the retreat, Alice befriends a socially awkward classmate while Father Murphy pulls Wade aside. With Wade on the hook for the explicit chat incident, Laura makes peace with Alice. At a whole-group sharing session, Alice reminds the retreat attendees that everyone is hiding stuff and implores them to treat each other with honesty and respect, as Jesus wanted.

Back at school, Alice reassures a still-uncomfortable Chris that they can just be friends. Returning to reconciliation with Father Murphy, Alice boldly reveals that while on the retreat she saw a video of people having sex—both of them knowing, but not discussing, the implications of her confession. Father Murphy assigns a heavier penance of one hundred prayers, but instead of remaining in the chapel, Alice goes home to rewatch and masturbate to the sex scene in Titanic.

Cast

• Natalia Dyer as Alice
• Timothy Simons as Father Murphy
• Wolfgang Novogratz as Chris
• Allison Shrum as Heather
• Francesca Reale as Laura
• John Henry Ward as Adam
• Susan Blackwell as Gina
• Parker Wierling as Wade
• Alisha Boe as Nina
• Donna Lynne Champlin as Mrs. Veda
• Matt Lewis as Ron, Alice s father
• Casey Von Driest as Gail, Alice s mother

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website s critics consensus reads: Natalia Dyer s charming performance – and writer-director Karen Maine s sensitive work – will leave audiences saying Yes, God, Yes to this coming-of-age dramedy. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Richard Brody of the New Yorker called the film a remarkable first feature for writer and director Karen Maine. Brody included the film on his list of the best films of 2020.

Year	2021
ReleaseDate	2021-11-26
RuntimeMins	122
RuntimeStr	2h 2min
Plot	A pregnant teenager comes to a tense agreement with the couple sheltering her.
Awards	Awards, 8 wins & 9 nominations
Directors	Manuel Martín Cuenca
Writers	Alejandro Hernández, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Félix Vidal
Stars	Javier Gutiérrez, Patricia López Arnaiz, Irene Virgüez
Produced by	Fernando Bovaira,Simón de Santiago,Urko Errazquin,Alazne González,Alejandro Hernández,Helen Martí Donoghue,Manuel Martín Cuenca,Guillem Vidal-Folch
Music by	Guillermo Galván,Juan Manuel Latorre
Cinematography by	Marc Gómez del Moral
Film Editing by	Ángel Hernández Zoido
Casting By	Eva Leira,Yolanda Serrano
Art Direction by	Montse Sanz
Set Decoration by	Vicent Díaz
Costume Design by	Ester Lucas Jaqueti,Pedro Moreno
Makeup Department	Yolanda Piña,Félix Terrero
Production Management	Ernesto Chao,Lolo Díaz
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Julio Blez,Rafael Carmona,Susana González,Paz Jiménez
Art Department	Bernard Bravo,Bernardo Bravo,Lucia Cherubini,Manuel Eslava Fajardo,Caín Martín,José María Martínez,Aitor Mendizábal,Iñaki Rubio,Cristina Schmager,Javier Tuñón,Patricia Vallés,Tania Whalbeck,Yiyo
Sound Department	Kevi Aragunde,Ignacio Arrojo,Miguel Barbosa,Marcos David Cabrera Barranco,Mayte Cabrera,Kevin Carvalho,Iñaki Díez,Dani García,Gabriel Gutiérrez,Blanca Gómez Ramos,Kevin Hortigüela,Sergi Nogué,Diego S. Staub,Pedro Summers,Iñaki Sánchez-Elvira,Eva Valiño,Juan Álvarez Fernández
Special Effects by	Iker de la Calle,José M. Meneses,Miguel Olarieta,Joaquín Ortega,Pablo Perona,Raúl Rodríguez,Raúl Romanillos,Juan Serrano,Lucía Solana,Andrés Torrado,Borja Zubiaga Delclaux
Visual Effects by	Arturo Artal,Antonio Chumillas,Marcos Colman,Pablo del Molino,Manuel Eslava Fajardo,Carlos F. Moreu,Daniel Martín,Javier Martínez Pacín,Cristina Mateo,Abel Molina,Juanma Nogales,Borja A. Ortiz,Ramón Rosa,Ana Rubio,Agustín Serna G. Lavín,Miguel Sánchez
Stunts	Arián Díaz,Rubén González,María Haba,Fran E. Moreno,Joaquín Ortega,Almudena Zambrano Carballa,Andrés Torrado
Camera and Electrical Department	Jorge Borreguero,Pau Castejón,Carlos Cañal,Óscar Fernández Camino,Rafa García,Adrián Hernández,Cristina Llobell,Manel Losada,Ángel López,Olaya Marcos,Adrián Martín,Kike Marín,Enrique Molina,Nigel O Brien,Antonio Jesús Rodas,Rubén Ruiz,Marino Scandurra,Adrián Soler Guillén,Tonet Tocino,Patricia Torres
Casting Department	Leticia Criado,Pablo Lavado Cuetos,Cristina G. Marfil,Alicia Pardina,Susana Plaza-Navas,Cristina Vicente
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Krishna Soto Moreno
Editorial Department	Noémie Dulau,Paulino Fernández Ibáñez,Eva Martos Hinojosa,Rafa Martínez,Isabel Salanueva
Location Management	Dani Bermúdez,Abraham López Feria
Music Department	Carlos Campón,Héctor García,Eduardo Lavilla,Vetusta Morla,María Pérez,Dany Richter
Script and Continuity Department	María José Sánchez
Transportation Department	Rafael Díaz,Darío Marchena,Alberto Martínez López,Anuca Sánchez Morales
Additional Crew	Iñaki Azcargorta Cifuentes,Juan Baena,Carlos Calvo,Miguel Casanova,Fran Castroviejo,Urko Errazquin,José Luis Fernández Granero,Rosa García Merino,Joan Gual,Juanjo Guinarey,Noso Guinarey,Irene Hens,Rafa Martínez,Javier Mateos,Paco Ortega,Juanito Ramirez,Fernando Rodríguez,María Jesús Román,Isabel Salanueva,Juan Pablo Sepúlveda,Jesus Villegas
Thanks	Rómulo Aguillaume,Elena Arnaiz,Lucía Casal,Francisco Fernandez de Ybarra,Aitor Errazquin,Teresa Fernández Cuesta,Sofía Fábregas,Ignacio Gutiérrez-Solana,Enrique Iznaola,Maite López Pisonero,Fernando López Puig,Lola Mayo,Fernando Monterrubio,Marisa Paredes,Chema Prado,José María Riba,María Rubín,Felipe Vega,Helena Vidal-Folch
Genres	Adventure, Thriller
Companies	Mod Producciones, La Loma Blanca Producciones Cinematográficas, La Hija Producciones la Película
Countries	Spain
Languages	Spanish
ImDbRating	6.2
ImDbRatingVotes	813
Keywords	teenager
Year	2019
ReleaseDate	2020-07-24
RuntimeMins	78
RuntimeStr	1h 18min
Plot	After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s discovers masturbation and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation.
Awards	Awards, 2 wins & 1 nomination
Directors	Karen Maine
Writers	Karen Maine
Stars	Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz
Produced by	Chris Columbus,Eleanor Columbus,Katie Cordeal,Arianne Fraser,Colleen Hammond,Karen Maine,Sophie Mas,Delphine Perrier,Lourenço Sant Anna,Rodrigo Teixeira,Ryan Winterstern
Music by	Ian Hultquist
Cinematography by	Todd Antonio Somodevilla
Film Editing by	Jennifer Lee
Casting By	Rebecca Dealy,Jessica Kelly
Production Design by	Sally Levi
Set Decoration by	Will Davis,Samantha LaRoe McDonald,Wesley Nicholas
Costume Design by	Brittany Loar
Makeup Department	Benji Dove,Joe Negrete,Anna Quinn,Jordan Venetis,Briky Stone
Production Management	Alex Capaldi,Harrison Huffman
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Demetrios Anastasiow,Josh Montes,Jason Shahinfar
Art Department	Kevyn Bowling,Barb Hammond,William Craig Johnson,Diem Ngo,Patrick F. Reedy,Alex Ross,Kiovani Shepard,Joey Teeling,Stephen Blake West,Will Wild Bill Davis
Sound Department	Matt Aston,Alfred DeGrand,Fred Kupfer,Brittany Myers,Bill Orrico,Tom Ryan,Alex Soto,Wen Hsuan Tseng,Vinny Alfano,Jonathan Jost,Dave Wilson
Stunts	Marcelle Coletti,Scott Dale
Camera and Electrical Department	Kyle Anido,Dumaine Babcock,Jonathan Brown,Kevin A. Cheatham,Ellie Evans,Mark Ferguson,Jason Hawkins,Donovan Henneberg-Verity,Michael Infante Jr.,Patrick King,Jonathan Klepfer,Boris Martin,Connor O Malley,Ben Rothstein
Casting Department	Meghan Apostoles,Erica Arvold,Rebecca Birstock,Jordan Blair Mangold Brown,Morgan Landers,Eileen Siebken,Christian Trew
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Taylor Addison,Julia Pistsova
Editorial Department	Jim Chaliz,Sean Dunckley,Matt Hubert,John Petersen,Drew Sawyer,Kevin Szczepanski,Heather Taylor,Veronica Vozzolo
Location Management	Kayla Gueho,David Richard Martin,Kelly McKay
Music Department	Aidinbeats,Michaela Biasucci,Rylan Soref,Mary Taggart,Tkdvaibhavjha
Script and Continuity Department	Lisa M. Calhoun
Additional Crew	Tara Ansley,Michelle Chang,Skylar Mitchell Haney,Jacob McCoy,Sara Sometti Michaels,Sean Pope,Swaraj Sahu,Karl Smudski,Brittany Sugarman,Kristin McNinch
Thanks	Paul W. Hazen,Adam Hendricks,Adam Ridley
Genres	Comedy, Drama
Companies	Maiden Voyage, RT Features, Walking Tacos
Countries	USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	6.1
ImDbRatingVotes	15494
MetacriticRating	71
Keywords	based on short film,close up of eyes,coming of age,biblical quote,dress code