Film Info
Viola

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Viola
Director	Matías Piñeiro
Country
Year	2012
Format	DCP
Colour	Color
Duration	65'

Cast:

María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Romina Paula, Gabi Saidón

Credits:

G: Matías Piñeiro
F: Fernando Lockett
E: Alejo Moguillansky
DA: Agustina Costa
S: Dana Ale, Emilio Iglesias, Francisco Pedemonte, Mercedes Tennina
M: John Aylward, Julián Tello
P: Melanie Schapiro
CP: Revolver Films

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Synopsis

Girls in conversation mode. Girls talking about love. Girls talking about love in a Shakespearean, intellectual, and typically Buenos Aires way. Girls as seen by Matías Piñeiro, who has built himself a filmography as recognizable as outstanding in the context of Argentine cinema, with The Stolen Man, They All Lie, Rosalinda, and now Viola. Here, he starts with Twelfth Night and closes in on indoor dialogues and rehearsals on the first segment. Then, he follows Viola through the streets of Buenos Aires. She delivers films in copied DVDs, an essential task in the “pirate company” called Metropolis she owns together with her boyfriend Javier. Connections, coincidences, encounters, love, and dialogues. Concentrating on those things –on doing them right, with a light and brilliant touch for emotional trade– Piñeiro’s filmmaking proves to be growingly confident in its resources, themes, and style; and even allows itself to have a dialogue with music in the film’s ending. And yet Viola’s entire structure is musical, rhythmic, and graceful: Piñeiro’s cinema knows how to combine stylistic stability and confidence with perpetual motion. JPF