Following her debut film Semana Santa (also a TIFF selection in 2015), which deals with the absence of a boy’s father, Alejandra Márquez Abella enlists actress Ilsa Salas (Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Museo) to represent snotty side of social status for her sophomore film in The Good Girls (Las niñas bien) – which world premiered in TIFF’s Platform competition. A screenplay based on the text of one Guadalupe Loaeza, this looks at classism with small small mundane hand gestures and through a larger lense of what is a daily ritual of addition and subtraction. What wealth giveth, changes in government taketh away. I sat down with Márquez Abella during TIFF to discuss thow she adapted the material, how she reflects on the era and the visual strategy she employs.
Video Interview: Alejandra Márquez Abella – The Good Girls
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.
