The Princess of France

October 4, 2015 · Knoxville Museum of Art · 2:00 p.m.

Victor returns to Buenos Aires after his father’s death and a stay in Mexico to prepare a radio production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out complicated entanglements with girlfriend Paula, sometime lover Ana, and departed actress Natalia, as well as his muddled relations with the constellation of friends involved with the project. As the film tracks the group’s crisscrossing movements and interactions, their lives become increasingly enmeshed with the fiction they’re reworking, potential outcomes multiply, and reality itself seems subject to transformation. An intimate work that takes characters and viewers alike into dizzying realms of possibility, The Princess of France is the most ambitious film yet from one of world cinema’s brightest young talents, a cumulatively thrilling experience.

“The subject is desire, but rendered in vague terms, so that it seems to flow like a current, from person to person, artwork to artwork. It’s a relationship drama in which the relationships are left intentionally inspecific.” — Ignaty Vishnevetsky, AV Club

“The action takes place in streets and bedrooms, studios and museums, and the actors are never word-bound; Piñeiro, a master choreographer, sets them in graceful motion and captures them in fluid, lively images.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

About the Filmmaker

Matías Piñeiro was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied and taught at the Universidad del Cine. He has directed one short, Rosalinda (11), and several features, including The Stolen Man (07), They All Lie (09), and Viola (12).