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Alba Rohrwacher

27 February 1979, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Emily Ferratello

Lars Eidinger

21 January 1976, Berlin, Germany

RogerEbert.com

The film obliges viewers to puzzle out the nature of the sworn virgin tradition, and even at the tale's end, it may not be clear. This can only be counted a virtue by those who count obscurity and bafflement as artistic assets.

April 22, 2016

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Eye for Film

Bispuri and her co-writer Francesca Manieri emphasise the real, using traditional Albanian ceremonies to give a strong sense of place, with cinematographer Vladan Radovic finding good contrast between the cool blues of the village and warmer cityscapes.

April 19, 2016

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Spirituality and Practice

A slow-moving and meditative drama about a young Albanian woman's transgender journey living as a man.

July 22, 2016

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Time Out

Even though Rohrwacher never quite passes -- she looks too much like Barbra Streisand's Yentl -- the movie is on to a larger point, namely about the fluidity of sexual identity and our universal penchant for self-reinvention

April 22, 2016

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CineVue

Bispuri's empathetic depiction of rural Albanian traditions explores the globally translatable significance of a woman's right to her own body.

April 19, 2016

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Hollywood Reporter

The dialogue is affectedly scarce, too scarce to sustain and deepen the story psychologically.

April 19, 2016

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Screen International

[Alba Rohrwacher turns] in a magnetic performance, but despite this and the director's skill at creating emotional resonance out of small things, it's not quite enough to stop the story from feeling a little undercooked.

April 19, 2016

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New York Times

Although Ms. Rohrwacher captures Mark's uncertain, shifting physicality, the movie doesn't always succeed in getting inside the character's head.

April 21, 2016

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Village Voice

Cutting between present, childhood, and recent past, Bispuri constructs a subtle, richly emotional collage.

April 20, 2016

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The Playlist

In her impressive debut feature, writer/director Bispuri uses this unusual, specific tradition to investigate much broader issues of gender identity ... while also delivering a touching personal portrait of tentative liberation.

April 18, 2016

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The Film Stage

Bispuri's feature debut makes a powerful statement about the suffocation that can come with gender norms, and about the double-edged sword of gender performance.

April 25, 2016

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Los Angeles Times

Skipping deftly between time frames while keeping her camera close to her protagonist - played with tremulous understatement by the remarkable actress Alba Rohrwacher - Bispuri traces a journey of delicate interior shifts and reversals.

April 28, 2016

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