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Isabella

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Mariel (María Villar) longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother's girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
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Ben Kenigsberg New York Times 08/26/2021
If Piñeiro's Shakespeare citations have sometimes freighted slight stories with unearned significance, "Isabella" finds him expanding his formal ambition. Go to Full Review David Ehrlich IndieWire 09/28/2020
C+
Piñeiro's cinema is too lush and vibrant to feel like work, but the catharsis he arranges for us here isn't enough to offset how this film's puzzle box approach disserves the subjective interiority that "Isabella" tries to solve with it. Go to Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker 09/22/2020
Leapfrogs through time, and through performances and productions, with a whimsically graceful yet intimately passionate cinematic imagination. Go to Full Review Ryan Swen Taipei Mansions Sep 5
The overall serenity, captured so well in the installation and the rock-throwing ritual as the tide quietly ebbs and flows, remains compelling to the end. Go to Full Review Fernando E. Juan Lima Otroscines.com 12/07/2021
10/10
Piñeiro's cinema is based on the pleasure of the experience itself. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com 12/06/2021
4/5
[Matías Piñeiro's] most radical, abstract, introspective, cryptic and elusive film to date. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Matías Piñeiro

Director

María Villar

Mariel

Agustina Muñoz

Luciana

Gabriela Saidón

Sol

Pablo Sigal

Miguel

Guillermo Solovey

Marcos

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Synopsis Mariel (María Villar) longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother's girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
Director
Matías Piñeiro
Producer
Melanie Schapiro
Screenwriter
Matías Piñeiro
Distributor
The Cinema Guild
Production Co
Trapecio Cine
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 27, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 4, 2022
Runtime
1h 21m
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