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The Heiresses (Las herederas)
Description
This dramatic story tells about two descendants of a wealthy family - Sheila and Kikita. This story begins in the Asunción area, where their financial situation worsened and they began to sell their entire inherited property without exception. Sheila is forced to face a new reality, where she began to provide local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. During that new life, Chela encounters Angy younger, and provides a new relationship which can change her painful reality.
This dramatic story tells about two descendants of a wealthy family - Sheila and Kikita. This story begins in the Asunción area, where their financial situation worsened and they began to sell their entire inherited property without exception. Sheila is forced to face a new reality, where she began to provide local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. During that new life, Chela encounters Angy younger, and provides a new relationship which can change her painful reality.
Actors:
Margarita Irun,
Alicia Guerra,
Ana Brun,
Ana Ivanova,
María Martins,
Nilda Gonzalez

Margarita Irun

Alicia Guerra

Ana Brun

Ana Ivanova

María Martins

Nilda Gonzalez
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Marcelo Martinessi
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August 27, 2018
Brun's performance exists mostly in between her sparse bits of dialogue - her facial expressions direct the emotional core of any given scene, while her eyes seem to change color with particular moods.
February 17, 2018
Builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and social context and its ultra-naturalistic performances.
October 04, 2018
The film succeeds mostly in Martinessi's direction. His shadowy visual aesthetic compensates for the narrative's shortcomings by evoking an absorbing sense of melancholy.
August 24, 2018
It's a film with a small focus but it's intriguing, memorable and very powerful.
September 27, 2018
With his debut film, Marcelo Martinessi paints an impressive image of Paraguay's upper class, trapped in their situation as the characters are in their social roles. [Full review in Spanish]
June 06, 2018
"The Heiresses" is the kind of story Hollywood doesn't tell anymore; a 50-something woman daring to rekindle her lost spirit of discovery.
February 16, 2018
Using largely unknown actresses with practically no screen experience yet an extraordinarily canny understanding of character, the director-writer achieves a heightened degree of insight within the confines of a stripped-down production.
September 24, 2018
Aside from some great performances,The Heiresses transpires little more than a calligraphic application of a formula. [Full review in Spanish]
August 14, 2018
Martinessi's frequent close-ups of Chela's face make her emotional ups and downs the driving force of The Heiresses.
October 30, 2018
In Ana Brun he's found someone that doesn't merely equal his skill but surpasses it.
August 14, 2018
Martinessi compassionately and without judgment, looks to coax his country from the safe but darkened doorway of the past, out into the sunshine of the present and the uncertain weather of the future.
November 12, 2018
This beautifully played-out drama is as much about the emergence of Paraguay after so long under dictatorship as about the middle-aged Chela, now emerging from the literal darkness of her shadowy home. Ana Brun is exceptional as Chela.