
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.... (Full plot summary below)
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Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.
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| Film Comment MagazineMax NelsonWhat knits this parade of conversations and encounters together are Piñeiro's rapport with his actors, his eye for telling peripheral details, and his skill at sketching out a coherent space within even the most casual composition. |
| Paste MagazineTim GriersonHermia & Helena's breeziness is complemented by melancholy. |
| Otroscines.comDiego BatlleHermia and Helena is the most accessible and free work from Lockett's, short but intense, trajectory, opening new horizons in his films. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Otroscines.comDiego BattleHermia and Helena is the most accessible and free work from Lockett's, short but intense, trajectory, opening new horizons in his films. [Full review in Spanish] |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyPart of the charm of Hermia & Helena is in the way it freely and randomly plays with form, employing luxuriantly slow dissolves, unexpected snatches of superimposed text, and even a black-and-white film-within-the-film. |
| Slant MagazineCarson LundIt may be Piñeiro’s most inspired and thrilling work to date, exhaustive in its means of keeping the viewer off balance and yet rich in its emotional implications. |
| Ion CinemaJordan M. SmithCamila's romantic whimsy and casual curiosity about the past ultimately leads to an unearthing of deep seeded, unexpected emotion within Hermia & Helena, signaling a new level of artistic maturity for Piñeiro and his regular collaborators. |
| Cinema ScopeMark PeransonAlways delightful, Hermia & Helena sees Piñeiro making an auteur film that fits into his oeuvre while expanding it in exciting directions-and en route, he makes New York his own. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineCristina MorenoThe film runs smoothly, with naturalism, dropping the main secrets of the main character in small doses as they pass through both cities. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasI went to see a new Argentine movie and a 1990s Whit Stillman movie broke out. I'm not complaining at all. |