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  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 46 m
Clara Sola

Summary In a remote village in Costa Rica, 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, ign...

Written By: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Maria Camila Arias

  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 46 m

Clara Sola

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary In a remote village in Costa Rica, 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, ign...

Written By: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Maria Camila Arias

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
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13% Mixed
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90
Jul 7, 2022
There might be no better time than now to mainline a story about a repressed woman pushing at restrictions in her culturally conservative world, which Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Clara Sola offers up with a forestful of divine energy, artistry, and mystery.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
83
Jun 29, 2022
Clara Sola is fleshed with the feeling that love and repression are braided together. It’s bound by the sense that we smother the things most precious to us in order to keep them from getting away.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 30, 2022
Araya is remarkably tender as she sinks her fingers into the earth or gingerly lifts bugs off the ground, while Sophie Winqvist Loggins’s hushed, soft-focus camerawork imbues these moments with an almost spiritual grace.
By Devika Girish FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 31, 2021
Mesen’s delicate yet earthy, thoughtful yet sensual movie never tips its hand as to whether Clara’s abilities are real or imaginary — indeed it makes the line between fact and fantasy seem as nonsensical as it might to a horse — and it pays off in one of those obscurely uplifting endings.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
78
Jun 30, 2022
Clara Sola remains rooted in a magical realism that gracefully grapples with the patriarchal limits imposed on women’s sexual pleasure, particularly when fellow women enforce them.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 20, 2022
It makes for an engrossing character study, a Latin film with lots of local color, a hint of magical realism and an air of hopelessness tinged with menace — a unique cinematic experience.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 18, 2022
The feverish and feral performance by Araya drags the film back from operating as a wispy metaphor.
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Production Company Hobab, Laïdak Films, Need Productions, Pacífica Grey, Resolve Media, Film Capital Stockholm
Release Date Jul 1, 2022
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Website http://hobab.se/portfolio/clarasola/
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Awards

Guldbagge Awards
• 5 Wins & 9 Nominations
São Paulo International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Reykjavik International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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