Una oración antes del amanecer

Sauvaire’s drama is lean and trim and unwavering in its task.

’A Prayer Before Dawn’ benytter Billys historie til etnografisk at undersøge de menneskelige bevægelsesmønstre bag en inhuman fængselskultur.

Rått och verklighetsbaserat med en enormt bra huvudrollsinsats.

A Prayer Before Dawn is a remarkably lived-in and poetic piece of genre filmmaking, casting an nonjudgemental eye on the machismo of the criminal underclass.

Joe Cole (...) is a bubbling volcano of unexpressed emotion as Moore...

...so immersive, you half expect to be hit by gobbets of sweat and blood during its fight scenes.