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Sworn Virgin

Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana leaves for Italy, where she decides to become a new and liberated person.
Duration: 84 min
Quality: SD
Release: 2015
IMDb: 6.4
Keywords:  #Alba Rohrwacher #Emily Ferratello #Lars Eidinger #Laura Bispuri #Sworn Virgin
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RogerEbert.com
April 22, 2016
The film obliges viewers to puzzle out the nature of the sworn virgin tradition, and even at the tale's end, it may not be clear. This can only be counted a virtue by those who count obscurity and bafflement as artistic assets.
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Eye for Film
April 19, 2016
Bispuri and her co-writer Francesca Manieri emphasise the real, using traditional Albanian ceremonies to give a strong sense of place, with cinematographer Vladan Radovic finding good contrast between the cool blues of the village and warmer cityscapes.
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Spirituality and Practice
July 22, 2016
A slow-moving and meditative drama about a young Albanian woman's transgender journey living as a man.
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Time Out
April 22, 2016
Even though Rohrwacher never quite passes -- she looks too much like Barbra Streisand's Yentl -- the movie is on to a larger point, namely about the fluidity of sexual identity and our universal penchant for self-reinvention
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CineVue
April 19, 2016
Bispuri's empathetic depiction of rural Albanian traditions explores the globally translatable significance of a woman's right to her own body.
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Hollywood Reporter
April 19, 2016
The dialogue is affectedly scarce, too scarce to sustain and deepen the story psychologically.
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Screen International
April 19, 2016
[Alba Rohrwacher turns] in a magnetic performance, but despite this and the director's skill at creating emotional resonance out of small things, it's not quite enough to stop the story from feeling a little undercooked.
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New York Times
April 21, 2016
Although Ms. Rohrwacher captures Mark's uncertain, shifting physicality, the movie doesn't always succeed in getting inside the character's head.
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Village Voice
April 20, 2016
Cutting between present, childhood, and recent past, Bispuri constructs a subtle, richly emotional collage.
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The Playlist
April 18, 2016
In her impressive debut feature, writer/director Bispuri uses this unusual, specific tradition to investigate much broader issues of gender identity ... while also delivering a touching personal portrait of tentative liberation.
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The Film Stage
April 25, 2016
Bispuri's feature debut makes a powerful statement about the suffocation that can come with gender norms, and about the double-edged sword of gender performance.
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Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2016
Skipping deftly between time frames while keeping her camera close to her protagonist - played with tremulous understatement by the remarkable actress Alba Rohrwacher - Bispuri traces a journey of delicate interior shifts and reversals.
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