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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Good Girls

Published on September 22, 2018

Her feature debut Semana Santa was selected for the 2015 edition of TIFF, and so it was a special homecoming of sorts for her sophomore feature The Good Girls (Las niñas bien) to be selected among the dozen titles for TIFF’s Platform programme. Part of a new generation of auteur Mexican filmmakers; Alejandra Márquez Abella has a background in docu film and here delves into 1980’s upper middle class crust guided by a precision details in the decor and even sleight of hand glances in the performances. Here is our photo shoot with the filmmaker (look for our interview shortly) and actress Ilse Salas of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros fame.

Alejandra Márquez Abella, THE GOOD GIRLS / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Ilse Salas, THE GOOD GIRLS / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Film Festivals

Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Good Girls