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- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
Summary In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Directed By: Isabel Coixet
Written By: Narciso de Gabriel, Isabel Coixet
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
Elisa & Marcela
33
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Summary In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Directed By: Isabel Coixet
Written By: Narciso de Gabriel, Isabel Coixet
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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75% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
33
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
75% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Deep down this is a conventional and predictably plotted period drama about a clash between bodice-ripping passion and social mores.
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.
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.
A dully made, frequently ridiculous eye-roller shot in standard issue black-and-white that gussies itself up as a brave clarion call for gay rights.
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Production Company
Lanube Películas,
Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC),
Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC),
Movies Production 2017,
Rodar y Rodar Cine y Televisión,
Televisió de Catalunya (TV3),
Zenit Television,
Zenit
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating TV-MA
Awards
Gaudí Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
ASECAN
• 4 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
