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Aug 6, 2018 · It’s a story played out in countless relationships, and my main thought as the film ended was curiosity over what might happen to the three women going forward. Chiquita is vainly trying to hold Chela back (her last action is desperately cruel) while Angy offers a freer, more sensual and less stultifying kind of love.
- Ana Brun | Ana Ivanova | Margarita Irun
- Marcelo Martinessi
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Jan 18, 2019 · Commencing with the happy partnership between Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irun), The Heiresses delves into the notion of love, interdependence, ageism and what occurs when the affluent…are forcibly placed into a different demographic circle. This seismic shift asks the character of Chiquita to reevaluate her status and her future ...
Jan 16, 2019 · 5 min read. “The Heiresses,” a Paraguayan drama written and directed by Marcelo Martinessi, could be called a quiet movie. There aren’t too many earth-shaking moments. The plot is minimal. But underneath the film’s quiet is a heaving ocean of longing, restlessness, melancholy. At the film’s start, we enter a world where time has ...
Jun 6, 2019 · Marcelo Martinessi, “The Heiresses / Las Herederas” (2018) A slow-burning, low-key character study that, among other things, examines loss and self-transformation and interrogates social hierarchy and the relations within it, “The Heiresses” is a rare creature: its main characters are a middle-aged lesbian couple who have lived together for 30 years in one woman’s old family home ...
In an early scene in Marcelo Martinessi’s accomplished debut feature, the introverted Chela (Ana Brun) pushes away her partner of 30 years, the more gregarious Chiquita (Margarita Irún), claiming that she smells of cigarettes and alcohol. The pair have returned from their friend Carmela’s 50th birthday party and it’s clear that their predicament – Chiquita is facing fraud charges and ...
Jan 15, 2019 · In writer-director Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses, middle-aged lesbian couple Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irún) live together in a bourgeois household with only the leftovers of its former grandeur. The house and its furnishings, Chela’s inheritance from her parents, have a dated, hand-me-down quality, and the couple is gradually selling off the expensive furniture and ...
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Jan 15, 2019 · The way the practical-minded Chiquita (Margarita Irún) deals with prospective buyers of inherited silver and crystal, and the way she caters to the needs of the flighty, aristocratic Chela (Ana ...
