Reviews

• The gritty photography is a perfect match for the film's harsh realities, the script is taut (not a word or motion is wasted) and the acting is raw and realistic.

  V.A. Musetto - New York Post
  
  19 January 2013

• There are no big surprises in Caetano's film, which plays out exactly as ordained, only a sense of life at its most precarious and real.

  Manohla Dargis - Los Angeles Times
  
  19 January 2013

• This film, Mr. Caetano's feature-length directorial debut, has an emotional integrity that's concise and direct.

  A.O. Scott - The New York Times
  
  19 January 2013

• Caetano's blunt, deterministic ending underlines the point too neatly, but in dignifying an outcast whose life is treated as anonymous and disposable, he puts a human face on a national tragedy.

  Scott Tobias - The A.V. Club
  
  19 January 2013

• While not particularly dramatically compelling, the film is carefully constructed and exposes both the economic and sexual exploitation of illegal workers.

  Ken Fox - TV Guide
  
  19 January 2013