The first section is excellent, with the celebrations confidently staged by co-writer and director Sandra Kogut. The 2016 episode is intriguing for the rapidity with which the very rich from Part One have fallen from grace...

A flabby and barely involving screenplay... misses too many opportunities to resonate in a meaningful way with the working class.

Kogut, who co-wrote the script with Iana Cossoy, displays a keen eye for satirizing Brazil's rigid class structures and how people like Madá try to find their own piece of the pie within them.

The story prefers to celebrate Madá's tenderness and illusion. [Full Review in Spanish]