The Heiresses's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
"The film exquisitely balances character study with shrewd commentary on the precarious hierarchy of class distinctions, the turbulent persistence of sexual desire and the lingering privileges of Paraguay's elite".
ABC
It's an intimate film that prefers the silence and the elipsis rather than the underlining or the big melodramatic conflicts.
The Guardian
Martinessi shrewdly combines subtlety, melancholy, satirical observation and candour about sex.
New York Times
This isn?t a perfect movie - sometimes the machinery of plot-focused screenwriting hums a little too insistently, especially toward the end, disrupting the quieter, richer music of everyday life - but its clearsighted sensitivity makes it a satisfying one.
The Hollywood Reporter
"Subdued to a fault, the drama nonetheless builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and social context and its ultra-naturalistic performances".
El Mundo
"More than masterly, Ana Brun, exciting, silent, fierce and contained at the same time, immense, (...) A beautiful exercise in desperate cinema."
Screen Daily
"There is much to admire for those who chime with the languid rhythms and language of loaded sidelong glances".
Cine Premiere
"The style of direction he has printed in his debut is as solid as the ones from other renowned filmmakers."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote