What Will People Say's reviews
Media reviews
La Razón
The raw and terrifying truth that emanates from the story, after all, the same one suffered by the director of the film.
Cinemanía
[...] The film is about a young woman persecuted, and ultimately swallowed up, by a social pressure that carries the reputation of an entire clan on her back.
Fotogramas
The pressure on the adolescent of the film increases throughout the footage, and the confict becomes inevitable; while the tension rubs the unbearable for the spectator.
Variety
She develops the father-daughter relationship visually as well as verbally, showing the action from both their perspectives.
New York Times
In a resolute acknowledgment of the oppression that too many young women face at home, the film portrays the family structure as the enforcing unit of feminine docility. Here, love is another form of bondage.
ABC
To a distant spectator the blood boils; but he has had to put the four key words of the debate in quotes ...
El Mundo
The attitude of denunciation that guides the narration and the song of freedom that the protagonist intones.
El Periódico
East and West face to face. The result is sober but without mordant.
Screen Daily
An assured piece of storytelling made all the more gripping by the knowledge that it is autobiographical.
Los Angeles Times
The emotional momentum...is carried along easily by Mozhdah, making a remarkable screen debut: In an instant, she can melt from trembling vulnerability to hair-pulling defiance, and in nearly every scene, we see her not just emoting but also thinking, continually renegotiating her position in a world that perceives her as tainted goods.