Miriam Lies

Directors Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada keep the camera close to their actors, creating an intimate portrait of an introverted young woman carrying a heavy emotional burden.

Cabral and Estrada's screenplay unpacks these tricky personal politics with an assuredly light touch, never forcing their flawed, finely drawn characters into overt rhetoric.

The well-intentioned treatment is lazily weakened by the absence of dramatic pulse that keeps comments on classism, adolescent doubts and racial prejudices in Dominican society in an area that is too sanitized. [Full review in Spanish]

A film that has a lot to criticise about an extremely sexist, classicist and racist society. [Full review in Spanish]