2016 · drama · romance
Hermia & Helena
Directed by Matías Piñeiro1h 27m2016
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.
Our read: Hermia & Helena (2016) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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