Hermia & Helena

Piñeiro conjures a cogently realistic yet gloriously imaginative vision of youthful ardor in love and art alike.
-- Richard Brody, New Yorker

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Hermia & Helena

Camila (Agustina Muñoz, The Princess of France), a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Upon her arrival, she quickly realizes that her work isn't compensating for the loss of her friends and the lover she left behind. When she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards from Danièle (Mati Diop, Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum), a former participant in the same residency, Camila second-guesses her artistic endeavors and begins to seek answers about her past. Hermia & Helena mingles actors from Matías Piñeiro’s Buenos Aires repertory with stalwarts of New York’s independent film scene (Keith Poulson, Dustin Guy Defa, Dan Sallitt). It is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating amorous detours across hemispheres and languages, in which the words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
Not Rated
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Runtime
87
Language
English, Spanish
Director
Matías Piñeiro
Cast
Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Dio, Keith Poulson
FEATURED REVIEW
Ben Travers, Indiewire

There are endless ways to adapt Shakespeare to film, but it’s safe to say nobody’s doing it today with greater innovation than Matias Piñeiro. In four of his five spry features to date, the Argentine has depicted contemporary stories of young people facing a variety of challenges intertwined with ...

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