Atom Egoyan : 2014
Captives
A pick-up truck pulls off the highway at a diner. Confident that his young daughter is safe in the back seat and promising to return with ice cream, the father slips out of his truck and into the diner. When he returns, she is gone. Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing indications seem to suggest that she is still alive. The police, her parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. Examining how the kidnapping destroys the relationships among those involved, this psychological drama teases out the complex threads weaving together the victim, her family, the predators and the investigators, revealing the mystery as to what happened to the child during the eight years she was missing. The film premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2014.
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