MOVIE

Most Beautiful Island

3.2
(68)
Rating
NRA
Duration
1h 20m
Year
2017
Language
English

About

Most Beautiful Island is a psychological thriller examining the plight of undocumented female immigrants hoping to make a life in New York City. Shot on Super 16mm with an intimate, voyeuristic sensibility, Most Beautiful Island chronicles one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana's day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome and unforeseeable extremes. Before her day is done, she inadvertently finds herself a central participant in a cruel game where lives are placed at risk, and psyches are twisted and broken for the perverse entertainment of a privileged few.

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"A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, Ana Asensio's Most Beautiful Island is a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"An intriguing and slow-burn reinvention of survival horror."
Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
"Most Beautiful Island summons viewers into its seductive web, lashing out with teeth-grinding tension when you least expect it."
Matt Donata, We Got This Covered

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