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Starring:
Amparo Moreno, Francesc Orella, Greta Fernández, Jorge Suquet, Lluís Homar, Manolo Solo, María Pujalte, Natalia de Molina, Sara Casasnovas, Tamar Novas
Summary:
In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
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Feb 14, 2019
Feb 14, 2019
Sadly for a story so fraught with desire and violence, Elisa & Marcela is painfully lacking in frisson and danger. Despite competent performances from her two young stars, Coixet fails to inject the girls’ relationship with complexity, tension and conflict. In the end, they are ciphers in a message-driven movie, which is made worse by contrived one-liners and gestures.
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The Guardian
Feb 14, 2019
Writer-director Isabel Coixet has taken a real-life love story from 20th-century LGBT Spanish history and turned it into something bafflingly passionless, joyless and excessively tasteful, an anti-alchemy assisted by stately monochrome photography that makes every frame look like a postcard from an art shop.
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