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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
This film, Mr. Caetano's feature-length directorial debut, has an emotional integrity that's concise and direct.
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A dignified second film for Caetano.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Turns the dangerous monotony of poverty and unemployment into something nearly hypnotic.
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While not particularly dramatically compelling, the film is carefully constructed and exposes both the economic and sexual exploitation of illegal workers.
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Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis
There are no big surprises in Caetano's film, which plays out exactly as ordained, only a sense of life at its most precarious and real.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Virtually plot-free, the movie's organic cultivation of Argentina's economic tension and ethnophobic woes is smooth as silk.
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Caetano's blunt, deterministic ending underlines the point too neatly, but in dignifying an outcast whose life is treated as anonymous and disposable, he puts a human face on a national tragedy.
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The gritty photography is a perfect match for the film's harsh realities, the script is taut (not a word or motion is wasted) and the acting is raw and realistic.