Synopsis
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
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Cast
- Daniela VegaMarina Vidal
- Francisco ReyesOrlando
- Luis GneccoGabo
- Aline KüppenheimSonia
- Nicolás SaavedraBruno
- Amparo NogueraAdriana
- Néstor CantillanaGaston
- Alejandro GoicDoctor
- Antonia ZegersAlessandra
- Marcial TagleOrlando's older relative
Recommendations
- 100
CineVue
It's how the film handles grief and alienation which makes Marina's story so compelling. - 100
The Guardian
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. - 100
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. - 100
Screen Daily
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. - 100
Variety
Vega’s tough, expressive, subtly anguished performance deserves so much more than political praise. It’s a multi-layered, emotionally polymorphous feat of acting, nurtured with pitch-perfect sensitivity by her director, who maintains complete candor on Marina’s condition without pushing her anywhere she wouldn’t herself go. - 91
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The superb Vega’s steady, liquid, fathomless gaze is so direct that we come to understand that behind it, behind the barricade of defenses she’s built up against an unfriendly world, she is no enigma at all: she is completely known to herself. - 83
IndieWire
While the storytelling grows frustratingly elliptical, Lelio so desperate to constrain the drama that he resorts to removing helpful pieces of it, the scenes that remain are succinct and evocative. - 83
The Film Stage
Timely issues of transgender rights both in Latin and North America help make A Fantastic Woman a bolder, brasher film, fiery in comparison with Gloria’s relatively tenderness, but anchored once more by a stellar central performance
