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Heli

2013

Amat Escalante

Armando Espitia, Linda González, Andrea Vergara, Reina Torres ...

6.4

2,047

Drama Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, her family and specially her brother Heli (Armando Espitia) will have to live the violence that is devastating the region.

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"While there can be no faulting the filmmaker’s sincerity in wanting to (...) render the chaos wrought on his country by poverty and the drug wars, [it] feels either obvious and/or exhausted by a raft of other recent (..) features on similar subjects"	NEU
United Kingdom	Catherine Shoard The Guardian	"Amat Escalante's damning indictment of contemporary Mexico is tough to watch at times, but its horrors demand our attention /...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"'Heli' may be the most optimistic film you will ever see in which one young man sets another's genitals on fire (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"'Heli' is undoubtedly made with serious intent, but it is also relentlessly depressing and curiously uninvolving."	NEU
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Village Voice	"I'm not sorry I saw 'Heli', but the squeamish should know what they're in for."	POS

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