Petra's reviews
Media reviews
El Mundo
The film works on a different and unstable way, dealing with a hard balance between surprise and pretentiousness. Anyway, what it shows is so strange, surrealist and desperate that you can't do anything but getting behind it.
ABC
A singular film that would had been able to defend itself on the competition. But this year other stronger titles came for the Palme d'Or, the Egyptian 'Yomeddine', by A.B Shawki, and the Russian 'Leto', by Kirill Serebrennikov [...].
Variety
It looks gorgeous, boasting sterling performances and an initially intriguing storyline that Rosales shuffles in an occasionally non-linear manner, not so far removed from such previous experimentations as 'The Dream and the Silence'.
El País
With 'Petra', Rosales worries too much about creating a aesthetic feel, filming really long takes, with almost no cuts, changing the time on the gruesome story.