Viola

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Viola

Released Jul 12, 2013

1h 5m

Drama

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Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

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J. Hoberman

ARTINFO.com

Viola, [Matias] Piñeiro's latest film is his most accomplished film to date, at once lucid and opaque using an amateur, all-female production of Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedy Twelfth Night.

Feb 22, 2019

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Tom Keogh

Seattle Times

Pieiro's bold but graceful camera movements, exploring space with unselfconscious joy, speak to a young filmmaker's emerging mastery.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 31, 2013

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

A Buenos Aires production of "Twelfth Night" is point of departure for a buoyant examination of love's labor's lost offstage.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 12, 2013

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Viola is an oddly mesmerizing film that gently asks to be taken in as more a mysterious theatrical poem than something of traditional narrative lineage.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 4, 2020

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

The suspense of waiting for the key moment becomes one of the film's defining moments, and the denouement manages to be both joyous and heartbreaking.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 7, 2019

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Dennis Lim

Artforum

If many recent art films have made prominent use of nonactors, typically cast as some version of themselves, Pineiro's beguiling, hyperverbal movies revel in the transportive potential -- and sheer pleasure -- of actors acting.

Jun 8, 2017

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Strange, inadequate 65 minute "movie" about several Buenos Aires women chattering incessantly about love and love affairs. They are actresses in a sort of semi-pro production of the Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night. So they're often shown reciting their lines, on or off stage (not costumed). Some mild but boring Lesbian interest here...not offensive. Male writer/director Matias Pineiro strikes me as unhealthily obsessed with all this girltalk (which of course he's supplying for the actresses).

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Es rara, pero termina siendo graciosa cuando entre tanta palabra queda una satisfacción en la nada.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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What a complete waste of time! Wonder who is going to play the lead when they remake this shit in Hollywood...

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Synopsis

Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

Director: Matías Piñeiro
Producer: Melanie Schapiro
Screenwriter: Matías Piñeiro
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Production Co: HD Argentina
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 12, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 22, 2014
Runtime: 1h 5m

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