The Heiresses

Las Herederas

Director: Marcelo Martinessi
PY, DE, UY, BR, NO, FR 201898 min. 0 sec.

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When Chiquita is sent to prison for debt, Chela is suddenly left on her own. She uses her old Daimler to provide a taxi service to wealthy older ladies in the neighbourhood. In her new role as chauffeur, she meets one of these ladies’ daughters – the young and life-affirming Angy. The encounter lures the rather passive Chela out of her reserve and helps her rediscover her own desires.  Exploring the outside world as tentatively and carefully as its heroine, the film increasingly trains its gaze on a social strata that is strangely cut-off from reality and lives without a thought for tomorrow. However, when Chela visits her girlfriend in prison, a completely different picture emerges of conditions in Paraguay.
DOP: Luis Armando Arteaga
Original language: es, gnSubtitles: enTranslation in headphones: lv