Paula

A film that manages to capture the modern feminine world and the issues surrounding the body from a much more subtle and suggestive perspective than an explicit and violent one, but which achieves the same result. [Full Review in Spanish]

Paula does a generally good job of explaining the insidious nature of eating disorders and how every aggression, micro and macro, fuels them. It isn’t just aggression that fuels eating disorders but also the community that awards thinness.

It is good for a popular audience of teenage girls to see their own experience reflected in their entertainment, and Paula is a worthy and responsible mirror.

... Wehbe tells her story with restraint and modestly, but simultaneously with conviction and empathy. [Full review in Spanish]