SummaryIn 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Directed By:Isabel Coixet
Written By:Isabel Coixet, Narciso de Gabriel
Elisa & Marcela
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Generally Unfavorable
33
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Feb 14, 2019
50
Deep down this is a conventional and predictably plotted period drama about a clash between bodice-ripping passion and social mores.
Feb 14, 2019
40
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.
Feb 14, 2019
40
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.
Feb 14, 2019
30
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.
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Production Company:
- Lanube Películas
- Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC)
- Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC)
- Movies Production 2017
- Rodar y Rodar Cine y Televisión
- Televisió de Catalunya (TV3)
- Zenit Television
- Zenit
Duration:1 h 53 m
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Gaudí Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
ASECAN
• 4 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
