Synopsis
In 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga adopts a male identity in order to marry the woman she loves, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.
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Cast
- Natalia de MolinaElisa Sánchez Loriga
- Greta FernándezMarcela Gracia Ibeas
- Sara CasasnovasAna
- Tamar NovasAndrés
- María PujalteMadre Marcela
- Francesc OrellaPadre Marcela
- Manolo SoloAlcaide
- Kelly LuaFlor
- Manuel LourenzoPárroco Victor Cortiella
- Jorge SuquetMédico de Dumbría
Recommendations
- 50
Screen Daily
Deep down this is a conventional and predictably plotted period drama about a clash between bodice-ripping passion and social mores. - 40
The Guardian
Writer-director Isabel Coixet has taken a real-life love story from 20th-century LGBT Spanish history and turned it into something bafflingly passionless, joyless and excessively tasteful, an anti-alchemy assisted by stately monochrome photography that makes every frame look like a postcard from an art shop. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Sadly for a story so fraught with desire and violence, Elisa & Marcela is painfully lacking in frisson and danger. Despite competent performances from her two young stars, Coixet fails to inject the girls’ relationship with complexity, tension and conflict. In the end, they are ciphers in a message-driven movie, which is made worse by contrived one-liners and gestures. - 30
Variety
A dully made, frequently ridiculous eye-roller shot in standard issue black-and-white that gussies itself up as a brave clarion call for gay rights.
