Chain-smoking and foul-mouthed, Socorro (Luisa Huertas) — a veteran, can’t-suffer-any-fools lawyer — clings to the memory of her dead brother both like a chain that keeps her captive and the engine that keeps her going in “We Shall Not Be Moved,” writer-director Pierre Saint-Martin’s blistering and tightly conceived feature debut. The sound of a helicopter haunts Socorro, who uses hearing aids, either as a bad omen from a distant past or a warning for the tenebrous path she is inching closer to in her restless quest for retribution. In the opening sequence of this black-and-white chamber piece, Huerta’s piercing gaze points directly at the lens, as if Socorro acknowledges
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