In addition to boasting an impressive production design, it is beautifully filmed. [Full review in Spanish]

Thus, audiences are likely to see this film as more resigned to the inevitability of permanent conflict than providing any insight in how to move away from it.

Shoshana is engrossing in purely cinematic terms: Winterbottom keeps the narrative streamlined and clear, and he slickly — maybe too slickly — stages several set pieces.

Shoshana is a look at the past through the lens of a historical figure who saw everything from the beginning up to today. With archive footage to push the story along in the beginning and at the end, Winterbottom smoothly gives us a timeline.