★★★1/2 Winner in the last Berlin, this co-production seems to take as aesthetic influences the cinema of the Mexican Carlos Reygadas and a certain memory in the way of filming the style of Lucrecia Martel. It is a choral story, a fabric in which, in a rural setting, we reflect on the different forms of violence based on the story of a couple, their daughter and a series of characters whom the camera visits with aesthetic rigor . There is another defect: a tendency to declaim or denounce not from the word but from the image. But that tendency is balanced by an often successful attempt at mystery: something, perhaps supernatural, surrounds the characters. There is ingenuity and skill in this construction, and without a doubt a great talent for building and finding the images relevant to the fable -or series of fables- that the film presents. A remarkable first film that is watched with constant interest, although at times it is difficult to feel empathy for its inhabitants.
