Press | Rayon Verde

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“After making two feature films in Bogotá, the city where I was born, I wanted to find ways to represent this simultaneity — the feeling of being in many places at once. It's something that I have seldom seen on Canadian screens.”

CBC Arts | Lina Rodriguez

“Energized by a rich soundscape, the film (My two voices) achieves a deep intimacy, while refusing to draw borders, between spaces, between voices, between there and here, who I was and who I am, between I and Us.”

Variety | Emiliano Granada

“The achievement of MIS DOS VOCES, then, is twofold: first, it highlights the struggles of adult language learning as they are inextricably enmeshed in going about one’s daily life. Second, it makes visible the complex experiences of the three women that are much richer in Spanish than the insistence on only interacting with them through English can ever allow. As such, the film is a plea to take bilingualism seriously.”

Arsenal Berlin | Ingrid Piller

“With a certain primal certainty that all the sadness in the world belongs to a migrant, My Two Voices is a rigorous (re)familiarization with a new landscape. A film that goes from the fragment to the whole, from narrowness to expansion, and that captures a beautiful summer light. A new sun of a new dawn.”

Revista Cero en Conducta | Pablo Roldán

“Rodriguez’ cinema signifies a nuanced reappraisal of the systems of silencing that have traditionally undermined female expression and representation in cinema”

MUBI | Naomi Keenan O’Shea

"Her films are made up of long sequence shots, which speaks of a virtuous economy in the use of resources and a great narrative patience. Elements that, together with a delicate sound work, are at the service of staging the strange landscape of intimacy"

Pàgina 12 | Juan Pablo Cinelli

"Lina Rodriguez's cinema has always had a strong relationship with a punctual space. In other words, each of her films is also an exploration and investigation of an environment"

Revista Cero en Conducta | Pablo Roldàn

"Lina Rodriguez describes how she makes movies between Toronto and Colombia, as well as the past, present, and future"

TIFF | Lina Rodriguez

"The short films of Lina Rodriguez: Self-perception, history and visibility"

Canaguaro | Karol Valderrama-Burgos

"The Quiet Power of This Time Tomorrow"

Village Voice Critic’s Pick | Alan Scherstuhl

"The film makes its points with a shattering emotional power"

The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

“(The) fragile changeability of family life is beautifully and painfully captured in This Time Tomorrow”

Variety | Guy Lodge

"Lina Rodriguez's excellent sophomore feature overturns the longstanding male perspective of female teenage characters as little more than objects of desire"

Film Journal International | Maria Garcia

"Rodriguez’s concerns pick up where Ozu left off when he died in the early ‘60s"

Gay City News | Steve Erickson

“The Colombian filmmaker based in Canada demonstrates with her second film, that she has one of the most personal and distinguishable cinematic perspectives, not only in Colombia but in Latin America.”

Micropsia | Diego Lerer

"Filmmaker Lina Rodriguez captures the naturalism of family life"

Globe and Mail | Kate Taylor

"This Time Tomorrow builds big drama out of small domestic routines: Local director Lina Rodriguez’s sophomore feature is quiet, confident filmmaking"

Now Magazine | Radheyan Simonpillai

"In tune with the work of the director of Late Spring, This Time Tomorrow transforms the territory of the domestic into a privileged setting for the definition of the emotional and existential fate of the characters, who find in that intimacy a space of expressive freedom"

Otros Cines Europa | Manu Yáñez

"Toronto filmmaker Lina Rodriguez makes her feature debut with an assured, beguiling look at the minutiae of being a young, single woman in Bogotá”

Now Magazine | Radheyan Simonpillai

"In Señoritas, the shape of Alejandra’s life is found in the juxtaposition of moments. Call it portraiture through accumulated exposure"

Toronto Film Critics | Kiva Reardon

"The carefully crafted film certainly feels like something completely new in Colombian cinema"

Screen Daily | Wendy Mitchell

"With a subtle and daring language, Lina Rodriguez brings her first feature film to Cine Tonalá’s cinemas"

El Espectador | Mariángela Urbina Castilla

"The singularity of Señoritas is fragile and subtle"

hambrecine | Sebastian Wiedemann

“With some experimentation reminiscent of the best of Gus Van Sant and the cinema of John Cassavetes, (Señoritas) describes the intimate experiences of Alejandra, a young Colombian woman, and her relationships with her overprotective but amusing mother, with her friends and her occasional partners”

Otros Cines | Diego Batlle

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