It can be dizzying to keep up with exactly where “Ayar” is going from moment to moment. Part psychological thriller, part immigration drama, part meta commentary on the nature of performance and the act of creation, Floyd Russ’ feature is — only to reel them back in with an intoxicatingly sinister atmosphere and a marvelous, unhinged lead performance. The movie follows singer and actress Ayar (Ariana Ron Pedrique), now out of work due to the pandemic, as she tries to reconnect with the young daughter she abandoned for stardom years ago. But what begins as seemingly Yet Another Covid Movie about everyday people grappling with lockdown mutates into something else entirely.
Ayar’s choice to leave her family, all dispersed Central American immigrants now living in Los Angeles, for a sleazy singing gig in Las Vegas wasn’t, we learn, entirely hers. As flashbacks reveal, she was pulled into a kind...
Ayar’s choice to leave her family, all dispersed Central American immigrants now living in Los Angeles, for a sleazy singing gig in Las Vegas wasn’t, we learn, entirely hers. As flashbacks reveal, she was pulled into a kind...
- 3/18/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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