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2014
Not Rated
Outsider Pictures
1 h 45 m

2014
Not Rated
Outsider Pictures
1 h 45 m

Summary Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. While she tries to achieve this dream, her family is engulfed in the violence of the region.

Directed By: Amat Escalante

Written By: Gabriel Reyes, Zümrüt Çavusoglu, Ayhan Ergürsel, Amat Escalante

2014
Not Rated
Outsider Pictures
1 h 45 m

2014
Not Rated
Outsider Pictures
1 h 45 m

Heli

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews

59

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings

7.2

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Summary Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen in love with a young police cadet who wants to run away with her and get married. While she tries to achieve this dream, her family is engulfed in the violence of the region.

Directed By: Amat Escalante

Written By: Gabriel Reyes, Zümrüt Çavusoglu, Ayhan Ergürsel, Amat Escalante

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews

45% Positive
9 Reviews

50% Mixed
10 Reviews

5% Negative
1 Review

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews

45% Positive
9 Reviews

50% Mixed
10 Reviews

5% Negative
1 Review

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Los Angeles Times

Jun 12, 2014

Heli is a stunning piece of filmmaking. It's a hypnotic, starkly beautiful, often disturbing drama that puts a working-class Mexican family in the cross hairs of its country's drug war.

By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

May 22, 2013

The film functions as clammy thriller as well as poetic agitprop.

By Catherine Shoard FULL REVIEW

Entertainment Weekly

Jun 12, 2014

The film’s nihilism serves as a metaphor for the merciless death pit of Mexico’s drug war, but not much else.

May 22, 2013

Throughout the film [Escalante's] camera tends to be lurking in the middle distance; coolly observing everything that passes through its inquisitive frame, leaving the messy business of reaction to us.

By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Jun 12, 2014

Heli, which won the directing prize in Cannes last year, is at once extreme and unspectacular, a grisly and lurid slice-of-life drama.

By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW

Jun 12, 2014

The main talking point of this empty-headed thriller from Mexican director Amat Escalante is a sure-to-be-notorious instance of penis incineration — a dubious distinction.

By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

Jun 11, 2014

The real unflinching truth is that an average newspaper reporter can do a more artful, compassionate job with a drug-war story than this movie does.

By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings

56% Positive
5 Ratings

44% Mixed
4 Ratings

0% Negative
0 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings

56% Positive
5 Ratings

44% Mixed
4 Ratings

0% Negative
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Production Company Mantarraya Producciones, Tres Tunas, No Dream Cinema, Le Pacte, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (FOPROCINE), unafilm, Lemming Film, Ticoman, Iké Asistencia, ZDF/Arte, Fonds Sud Cinéma, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Nederlands Filmfonds, Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award

Release Date Jun 13, 2014

Duration 1 h 45 m

Rating Not Rated

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Awards

Ariel Awards, Mexico

• 1 Win & 15 Nominations

Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards)

• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations

Havana Film Festival

• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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