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Viola

Argentina

2012

65 Min
Color
1.78:1
Spanish
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DIR Matías Piñeiro

PROD Melanie Schapiro

SCR Matías Piñeiro

DP Fernando Lockett

CAST María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Romina Paula, Gabi Saidón, Laura Parades, Julia Martínez Rubio, Esteban Bigliardi, Julián Tello, Pablo Sigal, Alberto Ajaka

ED Alejo Moguillansky

PROD DES Agustina Costa

Toronto (Wavelengths), Berlinale (Forum), CPH PIX (3 X Matías Piñero), BAFICI (International Competition): FIPRESCI Prize, Best Actress, Edinburgh (Directors' Showcase)

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Young Argentine auteur Matías Piñeiro continues his fascination with Shakespeare in this dazzling riff on Twelfth Night, which launches a host of intersecting characters into a roundelay of dalliances, intrigues and burgeoning revelations. –TIFF

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Lucas Granero

20Apr13

Piñeiro ya encontró su fórmula perfecta: la dureza del texto teatral se amalgama a la forma cinematográfica de una manera por demás amable, pero jamás complaciente. La distancia impuesta por el texto shakespeariano encuentra en Viola un punto justo de transformación en el cual el cruce de representación y la vida fuera de ella se expande hacia una especie de gran comedia luminosa, perfecta, sencilla en su complejidad

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TIFF 2012. Correspondences #6

By Daniel Kasman on September 14, 2012

Our critics’ dialog picks up the P.T. Anderson and Bellocchio films before moving on to the new Malick, Tsai and an Argentine discovery.

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