The folks at Criterion have released a brand new video showing Argentine director Matías Piñeiro visiting their office and picking up some of his favorite films from the now rather famous DVD/Blu-ray closet.
A dazzling and delightful mystery about love and its follies from filmmaker Matias Piniero – named one of "20 Directors to Watch" by The New York Times – Viola follows a young woman who joins a small Shakespeare theater company in Buenos Aires and becomes entangled in a seductive roundelay of romantic dalliances, intrigue and revelation.
Victor returns to Buenos Aires after his father's death and a stay in Mexico to prepare a radio production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out complicated entanglements with girlfriend Paula, sometime lover Ana, and departed actress Natalia, as well as his muddled relations with the constellation of friends involved with the project. As the film tracks the group's crisscrossing movements and interactions, their lives become increasingly enmeshed with the fiction they're reworking, potential outcomes multiply, and reality itself seems subject to transformation. An intimate work that takes characters and viewers alike into dizzying realms of possibility, The Princess of France is the most ambitious film yet from one of world cinema's brightest young talents, a cumulatively thrilling experience.