Clara Sola

Name: Clara Sola
Genre: Drama
Released: July 1, 2022
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Ana Julia Porras Espinoza, Daniel Castañeda Rincón, Fabrizzio Josue Vallecillo Vargas, Flor María Vargas Chavez, Kianny Castro Bravo

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: July 1, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Ana Julia Porras Espinoza, Daniel Castañeda Rincón, Fabrizzio Josue Vallecillo Vargas, Flor María Vargas Chavez, Kianny Castro Bravo, Laura Román Arguedas, Luis Gerardo Cruz Cruz, María Belén Román Quesada, Rodolfo Esquivel Gómez, Wendy Chinchilla Araya

Summary: In a remote village in Costa Rica, 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera,In a remote village in Costa Rica, 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, igniting a sexual and mystical awakening in Clara, and a journey to free herself from the conventions that have dominated her life.… Expand

Director: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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Robert Abele

Jul 7, 2022

There might be no better time than now to mainline a story about a repressed woman pushing at restrictions in her culturally conservative world, which Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Clara Sola offers up with a forestful of divine energy, artistry, and mystery. Read full review

Sabina Dana Plasse

Jul 21, 2022

Clara Sola is an intriguing film ripe with symbolism and strong performances. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jun 29, 2022

Clara Sola is fleshed with the feeling that love and repression are braided together. It’s bound by the sense that we smother the things most precious to us in order to keep them from getting away. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Aug 31, 2021

Set in a rural village and cast with nonactors, led by a feral performance from dancer Wendy Chinchilla Araya, the drama occupies its own territory, tinged with magical realism and deeply immersed in the sensory world. It’s also a vivid reminder that even a matriarchy can be paternalistic. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Aug 31, 2021

Mesen’s delicate yet earthy, thoughtful yet sensual movie never tips its hand as to whether Clara’s abilities are real or imaginary — indeed it makes the line between fact and fantasy seem as nonsensical as it might to a horse — and it pays off in one of those obscurely uplifting endings. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Jun 30, 2022

Clara Sola remains rooted in a magical realism that gracefully grapples with the patriarchal limits imposed on women’s sexual pleasure, particularly when fellow women enforce them. Read full review

Finlay Spencer

Nov 18, 2022

The feverish and feral performance by Araya drags the film back from operating as a wispy metaphor. Read full review

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