Hermanas
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| Directed by | Julia Solomonoff |
| Produced by | Mariela Besuievski Pablo Bossi Florencia Enghel Gerardo Herrero Vanessa Ragone Walter Salles Ariel Saúl |
| Written by | Julia Solomonoff |
| Starring |
Valeria Bertuccelli Ingrid Rubio Adrián Navarro |
| Music by |
Jorge Drexler Lucio Godoy |
| Cinematography | Ramiro Civita |
| Edited by | Rosario Suárez |
| Distributed by | Cinema Tropical |
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88 minutes |
| Country | Argentina Brazil Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Hermanas is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Julia Solomonoff, her first feature motion picture. The picture has a number of producers, including: Mariela Besuievski, Pablo Bossi, Florencia Enghel, Gerardo Herrero, Vanessa Ragone, Walter Salles, and Ariel Saúl.
The film features Valeria Bertuccelli, Ingrid Rubio, among others.
In 1976, during the political turmoil in Argentina, two sisters flee their country right after Natalia's politically active boyfriend Martin disappeares; one goes to Spain, and the other to Texas, United States.
After eight years in Spain, Natalia (Ingrid Rubio) travels to Texas to visit her sister Elena (Valeria Bertuccelli), who's now a suburban wife and mother.
She brings with her their father's manuscript of his last novel. The unpublished novel reveals the story of their family during the Argentine dictatorship.
Using extensive flashbacks of the sisters early years in Argentina during the junta dictatorship, the director reveals family guilt and suppressed resentment.
The film is based on the real political events that took place in Argentina after Jorge Rafael Videla's reactionary military junta assumed power on March 24, 1976. During the junta's rule: the parliament was suspended, unions, political parties and provincial governments were banned, and in what became known as the Dirty War between 9,000 and 30,000 people deemed left-wing "subversives" disappeared from society.
Jeannette Catsoulis, film critic for The New York Times liked the film, especially the acting of Valeria Bertuccelli and Ingrid Rubio, and wrote, "Though constrained by a directing style that insists on coloring within the lines, the movie is most successful in the rocky emotional spaces in which the sisters renegotiate their relationship and in which Elena, struggling with English, endures the painful process of assimilation...both actresses make their director look very good indeed."
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