Party Girl

Angélique is an instant, screen-grabbing star, and her family and friends are relaxed and captivating in their supporting roles as themselves.

Taking place under a leaden cloud of inevitability and charting the depressingly inexorable botching of a second chance, what does Party Girl ultimately have to tell us about the world?...Nothing particularly good, and nothing particularly new.

So far, Samuel Theis' instincts that his own family can provide characters just as rich as conventionally scripted dramas is proving astute ...

Beyond some somewhat manipulative and forced scenes, the film is both sensitive and disquieting. [Full review in Spanish]