A Fantastic Woman
It looks like a real tragedy for a girl named Marina after the death of her favorite boyfriend. Everything was fine somewhere in the city of Santiago in a nightclub, where Orlando, the owner of the glamorous and luxury textiles company, has a strong friendship with Marina, a hopeful singer who loves half his life. One day, everything changes. After celebrating Marina's birthday and a night of passion, Orlando is in a state of serious illness and dies in hospital, and things turn into a real tragedy.
1969, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
6 July 1954, Santiago, Chile
1980 in San Antonio, Chile
29 June 1972, Santiago, Chile
March 13, 1960 in Mulchén, VIII Región del Biobío, Chile
1960, Tomé, Concepción, Biobío, Chile
12 December 1962, Santiago, Chile
December 18, 1975 in Santiago de Chile, Chile
April 27, 1945 in Arica, XV Región de Arica y Parinacota, Chile
April 26, 1982 in Valparaíso City, Valparaíso, V Region, Chile
January 29, 2019
Fortunately, the film takes after its title character in that its flaws do not overwhelm its mostly skillful example of the personal made political.
March 02, 2018
Fantastic is one word for it, another would be outstanding.
February 22, 2018
"A Fantastic Woman" is a superb Chilean drama, at times infuriating but never despairing.
January 18, 2019
A Fantastic Woman questions the kind of poisonous and daily intolerance that sounds almost innocent and arises more from ignorance than from evil and hatred. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 15, 2019
A Fantastic Woman represents a bold step forward, but also stands alone as a great, always relevant study of resilience in the face of a thoughtless and cowardly world.
February 21, 2019
Vega's performance is riveting, but writer and co-director Sebastián Leilo's use of sex and gender to shape his narrative is straight out of a '50s melodrama.
March 01, 2018
When the screen went dark prior to running the final credits, I assumed for an instant that some small initial section had come to a close. In fact, an hour and three quarters had gone by.
January 31, 2019
The screenwriters, Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, created a mysterious, opaque fog around the core of the story that simply didn't work.
November 08, 2018
Daniela Vega is an absolute revelation.
February 22, 2018
A Fantastic Woman displays the same unblinking intensity that distinguished Jackie (2017), Chilean director Pablo Larrain's study of Jackie Kennedy in the week following JFK's assassination.
January 08, 2019
A Fantastic Woman is a reaffirmation of unapologetic womanhood.
February 28, 2018
"A Fantastic Woman" is the role of a lifetime for Vega, but let's hope it's just the start of a career, not the end.

