September 9, 2011
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Yazmin Anaya,
Xiadani Gutierrez,
Macaria Tejada,
Guadalupe Anaya,
Eleuterio Diaz
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The most highly praised and awarded Mexican documentary in many years, The Inheritors immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor. Polg... read more
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September 6, 2011
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
Unadulterated labor is the focus of this blistering, beautifully modulated documentary from Mexican auteur Eugenio Polgovsky. Full Review
March 11, 2011
Robert Koehler, Variety
The harsh, relentlessly arduous conditions experienced by children toiling in the Mexican countryside are observed with striking vision and cinematic poetry by filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky. Full Review
September 9, 2011
Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
Reveals the brutal exploitation that makes year-round tomatoes available at your local Gristede's. Full Review
September 7, 2011
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
What you remember most are the children, many of them barely past toddler age, herding animals, gathering wood and slogging buckets of vegetables picked from sunburnt fields. Full Review
September 6, 2011
Jesse Cataldo, Slant Magazine
One reason why The Inheritors works is that it abandons the reckless point-and-shoot aesthetic of so many social-issue movies. Full Review
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