Synopsis
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
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Cast
- Candela PeñaCaye
- Micaela NevárezZulema
- Mariana CorderoPilar
- Llum BarreraGloria
- Violeta PérezCaren
- Mònica van CampenÁngela
- Flora ÁlvarezRosa
- María BallesterosBlanca
- Alejandra LorenteMamen
- Luis CallejoManuel
Recommendations
- 88
TV Guide Magazine
Film works best as a soberly witty commentary on the workplace and makes an interesting companion piece to "Mondays in the Sun." - 80
Film Threat
Princesas isn't the cliché "Pretty Woman" type romantic-comedy you'd expect – it's actually quite surprising. - 75
New York Daily News
The actresses create wonderfully rich characters, and Luis Callejo, as Caye's unknowing boyfriend Manuel, and Antonio Durán, as the sadistic civil servant, fill out the very strong cast. - 70
Variety
This loosely-structured pic feels authentic, its underdramatized script resolutely nonjudgmental. - 70
Salon
Candela Peña is sensational in the leading role, and the film is big-hearted, poetic, sweet, sad and romantic. - 60
Village Voice
De Aranoa never condescends to his subjects, and Caye's mixture of aggression and tenderness is appealingly authentic. - 58
The A.V. Club
It's well-acted and strikingly shot, and its depiction of contemporary Spanish squalor is hard to forget, but it never quite reconciles its high-drama situations with its low-key approach. It whispers when it really wants to shout. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
The way that Aranoa so clearly venerates his lively women feels Almodóvar-esque, but the movie aims most of all to suggest that hookerdom is hell -- and it's neither realistic nor unsentimental enough to pull that off.
