“The Heiresses,” Paraguay’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Academy Awards, is in its own way as beautiful as the winner, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma.” It's a quieter film with a ...

Framed through a narrow crack in an adjacent doorway, the opening scene of The Heiresses, a subtle and perceptive character study from Paraguay, plays out from the perspective of a middle-aged woman ...

Paraguay’s Marcelo Martinessi, director of “The Heiresses,” a 2018 double Berlin Silver Bear winner, is re-teaming with the film’s sales agent, Paris-based Luxbox Films, as well as two of its key ...

On the heels of Freeform’s pilot order to Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, toplined by PLL co-stars Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish, from PLL mastermind I. Marlene King and based on the books ...

Heiresses (Herederas) is a slight story of the undead augmented by an unusual commitment to one of moviemaking’s greatest hidden treasures—dialogue. Carlos Marbán’s riff on Stephen King’s Pet Sematary ...

In the opening shot of “The Heiresses,” a sharply detailed first feature from Paraguayan writer-director Marcelo Martinessi, the camera peers through a doorway into a shadowy dining room. Much later, ...

A finely-crafted, beautifully realized debut that exquisitely balances character study with shrewd commentary on class, desire, and the lingering privileges of Paraguay’s elite. Martinessi keeps tight ...

A middle-aged woman is nudged out of her comfort zone in Paraguay’s “The Heiresses,” the country’s submission for Oscar consideration. That choice seems largely based on the brilliantly understated ...