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A Fantastic Woman
In a drama of a different kind that speaks of a real tragedy for the girl named Marina with her friend Orlando. That story began somewhere in Santiago in a nightclub where Marina was an ambitious singer. Orlando, the owner of the glittering textile firm, was building a strong friendship with Marina. Everything becomes a tragedy after the celebration of the birthday of Marina and a night of love. It was not good when Orlando was in a serious condition, where the next morning he died in hospital, which could make things completely different.
1969, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
12 December 1962, Santiago, Chile
April 27, 1945 in Arica, XV Región de Arica y Parinacota, Chile
December 18, 1975 in Santiago de Chile, Chile
6 July 1954, Santiago, Chile
February 15, 2019
A Fantastic Woman represents a bold step forward, but also stands alone as a great, always relevant study of resilience in the face of a thoughtless and cowardly world.January 29, 2019
Fortunately, the film takes after its title character in that its flaws do not overwhelm its mostly skillful example of the personal made political.March 01, 2018
When the screen went dark prior to running the final credits, I assumed for an instant that some small initial section had come to a close. In fact, an hour and three quarters had gone by.January 08, 2019
A Fantastic Woman is a reaffirmation of unapologetic womanhood.February 22, 2018
A Fantastic Woman displays the same unblinking intensity that distinguished Jackie (2017), Chilean director Pablo Larrain's study of Jackie Kennedy in the week following JFK's assassination.March 02, 2018
Fantastic is one word for it, another would be outstanding.February 22, 2018
"A Fantastic Woman" is a superb Chilean drama, at times infuriating but never despairing.February 28, 2018
"A Fantastic Woman" is the role of a lifetime for Vega, but let's hope it's just the start of a career, not the end.January 31, 2019
The screenwriters, Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, created a mysterious, opaque fog around the core of the story that simply didn't work.November 08, 2018
Daniela Vega is an absolute revelation.February 21, 2019
Vega's performance is riveting, but writer and co-director Sebastián Leilo's use of sex and gender to shape his narrative is straight out of a '50s melodrama.January 18, 2019
A Fantastic Woman questions the kind of poisonous and daily intolerance that sounds almost innocent and arises more from ignorance than from evil and hatred. [Full Review in Spanish]