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Elisa and Marcela
(Elisa y Marcela)
Wednesday April 24th 2019, 6:45 pm
Regal Cinemas South Beach
1120 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Film Details
Runtime: 113 mins
Language: Spanish & Portuguese with English Subtitles
Director: Isabel Coixet
Country: Spain
Genre: Drama, Historical Fiction, Lesbian, LGBTQ
ADDITIONAL FREE SCREENING
Donations are requested to support the Lynn Bové Scholarship fund!
1885. It’s love at first sight when Marcela and Elisa meet in high school, and soon a close friendship becomes a secret romantic relationship. Marcela’s parents are suspicious and send her abroad. When she returns, the reunion with Elisa is magical and they decide to share a life together. Due to the puritanical times, Elisa poses as a man to marry Marcela. Based on true events of the first same-sex marriage, Elisa and Marcela is a deeply empathetic film about two courageous women that shows the hard life and persecution they faced, yet remains a gorgeous paean to passion, dignity and resistance.
Donations are requested to support the Lynn Bové Scholarship fund!
1885. It’s love at first sight when Marcela and Elisa meet in high school, and soon a close friendship becomes a secret romantic relationship. Marcela’s parents are suspicious and send her abroad. When she returns, the reunion with Elisa is magical and they decide to share a life together. Due to the puritanical times, Elisa poses as a man to marry Marcela. Based on true events of the first same-sex marriage, Elisa and Marcela is a deeply empathetic film about two courageous women that shows the hard life and persecution they faced, yet remains a gorgeous paean to passion, dignity and resistance.
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