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- 2016
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 24 m
- 2016
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 24 m
Summary Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Written By: Laura Bispuri, Elvira Dones, Francesca Manieri
- 2016
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 24 m
- 2016
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 24 m
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Summary Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Written By: Laura Bispuri, Elvira Dones, Francesca Manieri
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Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
70
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Cutting between present, childhood, and recent past, Bispuri constructs a subtle, richly emotional collage.
Bispuri’s feature debut makes a powerful statement about the suffocation that can come with gender norms, and about the double-edged sword of gender performance.
Skipping deftly between time frames while keeping her camera close to her protagonist — played with tremulous understatement by the remarkable actress Alba Rohrwacher — Bispuri traces a journey of delicate interior shifts and reversals.
A poignant study of gender politics enshrined within an anthropologically fascinating drama.
It feels like every script-reader in the Italian-Swiss-German-Albanian-Kosovo coproduction cut out a line of dialogue in each scene, leaving behind an irritating silence and an enigmatic puzzle for the audience to second-guess.
Although Ms. Rohrwacher captures Mark’s uncertain, shifting physicality, the movie doesn’t always succeed in getting inside the character’s head.
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Production Company
Vivo Film,
Colorado Film Production,
Bord Cadre Films,
Match Factory Productions,
Erafilm,
Rai Cinema,
RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera,
IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund,
Eurimages,
Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT),
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
L'Atelier du Festival-Cannes
Release Date Apr 22, 2016
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 3 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
San Francisco International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations