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26 mag 2017 · Powered by JustWatch. “Hermia & Helena” is primarily the story of Camila ( Agustina Muñoz ), a young woman from Buenos Aires who takes up an artistic residency in New York City to do a translation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while wading through some drama of her own. Her tale is told in a manner not too differently ...
Hermia & Helena mingles actors from Matías Piñeiro’s Buenos Aires repertory with stalwarts of New York’s independent film scene (Keith Poulson, Dustin Guy Defa, Dan Sallitt). It is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating amorous detours across hemispheres and languages, in which the words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
22 set 2016 · Hermia & Helena unfolds as a series of vignettes—divorced from linear chronology, but accompanied by hand-scribbled, helpfully titled chapter headings, such as “Carmen & Camila”—in which the various acquaintances orbiting around Camila shuffle in and out of her life, but never stay long enough for us to get a clear hold on the heroine’s persona.
16 mag 2017 · Matías Piñeiro's Hermia & Helena opens May 26 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Metrograph in New York.Camila (Agustina Muñoz, The Princess of France...
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But when Camila and her father quietly subject one another to a long cross-interrogation, the film’s stakes shift under us. We realize that for the length of the movie we’ve been watching someone haggle—and contradict herself and double back—over how her life should run. Hermia & Helena will screen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Hermia and Helena is marked, as well, by a new calm, a new meditative pace, a new melancholy tone. I note the film's opening dedication to Setsuko Hara, one of Yasujirō Ozu’s greatest stars, and an emblem, of Ozu’s profoundly humanist interest in quotidian life and in the infinite complexities and contradictions of love.
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1982. Based in New York since 2011. He is a film director and writer with feature and short films premiered in Berlinale, Locarno, Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. His films usually spring from various literary sources such as William Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sappho and Domingo F. Sarmiento.
