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A Fantastic Woman

Una mujer fantástica

2017

Sebastián Lelio

Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim ...

6.6

7,282

Drama Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando, 20 years older than her, owns a printing company. After an evening celebrating Marina’s birthday, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but Orlando passes away just after arriving at the hospital. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, suddenly Marina is under suspicion. Doctors and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"[A] stunning, deeply involving portrait of a woman with the borderline superhuman capacity not to hate herself for who she is, no matter who else does."	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Chilean director Sebastián Lelio and star Daniela Vega give the growing bracket of transgender drama a new, luminous touchstone work."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'A Fantastic Woman' exposes the embarrassing banality of intolerance (...) A gripping, nuanced character study that humiliates our ignorance."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect."	POS
United Kingdom	Ryan Gilbey The Guardian	"Vega dominates virtually every frame (...) It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"Lelio approaches this material with sensitivity and empathy. There's restraint in his style, eloquent as it is (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Empire	"This is an unsurprisingly upsetting watch at times, but it’s made compelling by Vega’s dignified, heartfelt performance (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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