Director: Eduardo Mignona
Country: Argentina / Spain
Year: 2003
Runtime: 105 minutes
Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Awards: Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival - Best Foreign Language Film, Montréal World Film Festival - Best Film from Latin America

A retired schoolteacher (Norma Aleandro) takes part-time jobs to support her depressed, unemployed husband. When she meets a young actress (Natalia Oreiro) aspiring to better roles than those in soaps, they form an immediate bond and embark on a more benign version of Thelma and Louise. For part of the trip they are joined by a sympathetic hunk, played with smoldering sexuality by Leonardo Sbarglia. Their adventures on the road both amuse and enlighten—them and us too. The film’s final scene allows viewers to muse on the role of women, married and un-, in Hispanic America. Academy-Award nominated (The Official Story) Aleandro is wonderfully ditsy in her role as an older, married woman exposed to the possibilities of FemLib. The musical score is an added pleasure. P.S. The film’s title is misleading. ~ Nick Salerno

Principal Cast: Norma Aleandro, Natalia Oreiro, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio

Producers: Pablo Bossi, Carlos L. Mentasti
Editor: Juan Carlos Macías
Music: Paco Ortega
Cinematographer: Marcelo Camorino
Screenwriters: Eduardo Mignogna, Silvina Chague

Offical Website:
http://www.uolsinectis.com.ar/patagonik/cleopatra/indexf.htm