The heiresses

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Movie
German title The heiresses
Original title Las herederas
Country of production Paraguay , Uruguay , Germany , Brazil , Norway , France
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2018
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Marcelo Martinessi
script Marcelo Martinessi
production Sebastián Peña Escobar ,
Marcelo Martinessi
camera Luis Armando Arteaga
cut Fernando Epstein
occupation

The heiresses (Original title: Las herederas , English Festival title. The heiresses ) is a film directed by Marcelo Marti Nessi from the year 2018 . The melodrama is based on an original script by the Paraguayan director and tells of an older woman (played by Ana Brun ) who begins to emancipate herself when her more dominant partner ( Margarita Irún ) ends up in custody for overindebtedness.

The film premiered on February 16, 2018 in the competition at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and won several awards. The German theatrical release took place on November 29, 2018.

action

The Paraguayan theater actress Ana Brun made her film debut as Chela.

Asunción , in the present: Chela and Chiquita have been a couple for over 30 years. The two women, who are beginning to be senior, come from the upper class of Paraguay's capital and never had to work themselves. While Chela is reluctant to leave the house and prefers to spend the day in front of her easel, Chiquita is extroverted and takes care of life together. Financial difficulties force the two to sell parts of their inherited furniture. Chela is upset about the sale of her beloved memorabilia, at the same time she is afraid of the possible social exposure and refuses alms from friends. The two women from Carmela, who Chiquita supports in dealing with authorities, receive help. Chela rejects the younger woman.

When Chiquita is charged with over-indebtedness and arrested, Chela is suddenly left on her own. She has to instruct the new housemaid Pati. To keep up appearances, the mutual friends are told that Chiquita is staying for a month in the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este . Although Chela does not have a driver's license, she sits down occasionally at the wheel of her old Mercedes 240 D . When their mutual friend asks Picuta to be driven to see friends, Chela complies with this request. Picuta insists on paying for the gasoline. As a result, an informal taxi service for rich, older women in the neighborhood begins to develop.

The Chela, who used to be more passive, begins to emancipate itself from the absent Chiquita. She helps Pati sell the furniture and makes the acquaintance of young, cheerful Angy on one of her trips. Although Chela has never driven the motorway before, she fulfills Angy's wish to drive her and her mother over the M2 to Haugua. Angy's mother has to undergo treatments in the hospital there. A close friendship develops between Chela and Angy. Angy teaches Chela to smoke and tells about her adventurous love life. She also begins to address Chela with "Poupée" (Eng. "Doll"), the nickname from her childhood. Chela begins to neglect Chiquita's regular visits to prison. When Angy leaves Haugua prematurely one day with her ex-boyfriend who suddenly appears, Chela feels offended. At the same time, an incident in prison gives her the impression that Chiquita might be having an affair with a fellow inmate. Chela then approaches her housemaid Pati.

When Chela is chauffeuring Picuta and other friends to a funeral, she happens to meet Angy again. She is bored in the evening and they both drive to Chela's home and drink wine. Angy tells Chela about her first threesome . When Chela comes back from the toilet, she finds Angy lying lasciviously on the bed. Chela then flees back to the toilet. The drunk Angy is indignant because she assumed that a night together was Chela's intention. Angy then leaves the house. Chela rushes after her in the car, but cannot find her and gets drunk. The next day, the hungover Chela sets out to visit Chiquita in prison, but made a mistake about the visiting day and sleeps off her intoxication on the spot. In the evening she tries in vain to reach Angy by phone. The next day, in the presence of Carmela, Chiquita unexpectedly returns home from prison and tells Chela that there is a buyer for the car. Chela threatens to revert to her former passivity. During the night she climbs to the roof of the house, where she is discovered and comforted by Pati. The next day, Chiquita discovers that Chela has disappeared by car.

reception

With Die Erbinnen , Marcelo Martinessi was the first Paraguayan director to compete for the Golden Bear , the festival's main prize. His film received 2.6 out of four possible stars in the international reviews of the British trade magazine Screen International and, together with the Polish contribution Twarz, took a shared 7th place among all 19 Berlinale competition films. Wes Anderson's animated film Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey (3.3) topped the ranking.

Awards

The heiresses has won awards at several film festivals. In September 2018, the film was selected as a Paraguayan nominee for an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film .

A selection of the prizes and awards won:

Web links

Commons : Las Herederas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ¿Un Oso para Ana Brun? . In: abc.com, February 19, 2018 (accessed February 24, 2018).
  2. ↑ Premiere in the competition: “Las herederas” by Marcelo Martinessi . In: filmstiftung.de, February 16, 2018 (accessed February 24, 2018).
  3. ^ Dalton, Ben: 'Isle Of Dogs' tops Screen's final Berlin Jury Grid; Golden Bear winner 'Touch Me Not' scores low . In: screendaily.com, February 26, 2018 (accessed March 8, 2018).
  4. ↑ Mango, Agustin: Oscars: Paraguay Selects 'The Heiresses' for Foreign-Language Category . In: hollywoodreporter.com , September 10, 2018 (accessed October 1, 2018).