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María M.

1964 · 92 min

A sober, melancholy character drama that follows a woman's hopes for reinvention and the quiet cruelty of circumstance.

Overview
María M. is a prostitute from the Ciudad de Buenos Aires. She has sex and love relationships with several men, until she meets the one she thinks will be the love of her life. From that moment he decides to reform and start a new life, but fate has a bitter disappointment in store for him.

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • identity
    • fate
    • betrayal
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism7
    Romance6
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Emilio Vieyra
    Written by
    Vito De Martini
    Starring
    Libertad Leblanc, Gloria Guzmán, Fernando Siro, José María Langlais, Ignacio Quirós, Aldo Kaiser, Emilio Comte
    Runtime
    92 min
    Country
    Argentina
    Languages
    Spanish

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