Our Mothers

For a brief movie, "Our Mothers" packs a lot in.

A modestly scaled picture with massive implications.

Around his main character, writer-director César Díaz builds a complex but unpretentious interrogation of national belonging.

Important subject, uninvolving movie.

Notwithstanding a few genuinely affecting moments, "Our Mothers" never breaks free from being a standard social-issue movie mostly invested in preaching the cause.

This is an appealingly dignified, humane story of the repercussions of the little-known civil war in Guatemala in the 1980s as borne by the country's women.

An emotional drama that takes less than an hour and a quarter to point out, with testimonial basis and a certain simplicity, the socio-political scars of Guatemala caused by dehumanization. [Full review in Spanish]

channels the grief of a hurting nation.

It's really quite something for a film about the most momentous of subjects - our very humanity - to manage to be this inconsequential.

A promising feature film debut that unearths a nation's harrowing past in search of justice and redemption. [Full Review in Spanish]