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Filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky examines child labor in Mexico.
  • Genre:
    documentary
  • Original Language:
    Spanish
  • Director:
    Eugenio Polgovsky
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Macaria Tejada
Xiadani Gutiérrez
Yazmin Anaya
Eugenio Polgovsky
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Critic Reviews for The Inheritors

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  • Eugenio Polgovsky's unvarnished portrait of the rural poor in modern-day Mexico.

    September 9, 2011 | Rating: 4/5

    Jeannette Catsoulis

    New York Times

  • 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.

    September 7, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Keith Uhlich

    Time Out

  • Unadulterated labor is the focus of this blistering, beautifully modulated documentary from Mexican auteur Eugenio Polgovsky.

    September 6, 2011 | Full Review…

    Mark Holcomb

    Village Voice

  • One reason why The Inheritors works is that it abandons the reckless point-and-shoot aesthetic of so many social-issue movies.

    September 6, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Jesse Cataldo

    Slant Magazine

  • 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.

    March 11, 2011 | Full Review…

    Robert Koehler

    Variety

  • Reveals the brutal exploitation that makes year-round tomatoes available at your local Gristede's.

    September 9, 2011 | Full Review…

    Louis Proyect

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