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  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Most Beautiful Island chronicles one harrowing day in the life of Luciana (Ana Asensio), a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana's day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome and unforeseeable extremes. Before her day is done, she inad...

Directed By: Ana Asensio

Written By: Ana Asensio

  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2017
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Most Beautiful Island

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Most Beautiful Island chronicles one harrowing day in the life of Luciana (Ana Asensio), a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana's day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome and unforeseeable extremes. Before her day is done, she inad...

Directed By: Ana Asensio

Written By: Ana Asensio

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90
Nov 1, 2017
As a rumination on the experiences of undocumented immigrants, Most Beautiful Island presents an extreme example of what people will do to scrape by — but it does so without belittling its vulnerable characters.
By Tatiana Craine FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 2, 2017
Dark corners of the immigrant experience in New York City, especially for women, are frighteningly dramatized in Ana Asensio’s suspense film Most Beautiful Island, a modest but effective writing-directing debut.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 20, 2017
The movie’s payoff is every bit as delicious as its build-up.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
75
Many genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just take the money and run.
By Henry Stewart FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 6, 2017
Most Beautiful Island summons viewers into its seductive web, lashing out with teeth-grinding tension when you least expect it.
By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 16, 2017
The pivotal scenes may be fictionalised, but the prickling, precarious threat is clammily authentic and inspired by the experiences of the film’s writer, director and star, Ana Asensio, as an undocumented Spanish immigrant eking out an existence in New York.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 3, 2017
Until her plight becomes emotionally engaging during the film's creepy finale 20-30 minutes, watching Most Beautiful Island is an unproductively unpleasant experience.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Glass Eye Pix, Palomo Films
Release Date Nov 3, 2017
Duration 1 h 20 m
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Website http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/most-beautiful-island/
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sidewalk Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Alcalá de Henares Short Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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