The Princess of France

Double Feature with VIOLA

(2014) dir Matías Piñeiro w/Juian Larquier Tellarini, Agustina Muñoz, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Maria Villar [67 min; DCP]
Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro is obsessed with Shakespeare… but not in the usual sense for a filmmaker. His obsession leads him not to mount grand adaptations of the Bard’s works but, instead, to explore the themes and narratives of the plays by entwining them with the stories of characters who are themselves mounting productions. In THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE for instance, the lives of a group of friends working on a radio version of Love’s Labours Lost become hopelessly enmeshed with the fiction they’re reworking.