Princesses Details

Exceptional

Probably one of the best Spanish films ever done.

It is a great story that explores different aspects of a hidden part of society to many in Spain. It shows the friction between immigrants and Spanish and it expose a taboo topic 'the prostitution'.

Prepare to spend the best 2 hours of your life. If you are too weak hire something else.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Princesas

Candela Pena and Micaela Nevarez are both excellent as the street prostitutes around whose friendship Princesas revolves, giving bravely down to earth, realistic performances (particularly in Pena’s case in one rather upsetting scene). If this had been a two hander then it would have worked brilliantly, but the peripheral characters that drift in and out of the film don’t work. They have too little personality and, in the case of Pena’s family are so broadly played that they threaten to upset the tone of the film.

The smaller storylines also feel unfinished and while it’s often no bad thing to be left with questions at the end of a film here it irritated me, feeling like writer/director Fernando Leon De Aranoa simply didn’t have enough ideas for scenes to wrap these stories up convincingly.

Princesas is still worth seeing though, Candela Pena is always worth watching and here the relationship she establishes with Nevarez is beautifully realised.