What It Was
NewFest 2014
July 24 - 29, 2014
New York Premiere
Q&A with Daniel Armando and Arlene Chico-Lugo
A successful Latina actress whose life is in collapse returns to New York in a fog and tumbles through a series of intense, complex connections with a sexy, butch body artist, a young college student, and a former girlfriend.
New York Premiere
Q&A with Daniel Armando and Arlene Chico-Lugo
In Daniel Armando’s multilayered film, Adina, a successful Latina actress, returns to New York in the aftermath of her sister’s death and her marriage’s collapse. Unable to face her mother, she finds herself in a fog, drifting through the days. Memories dissolve into the present as she tumbles through a series of intense, complex connections with a sexy, butch body artist, a young college student, and a former girlfriend. With confident directing, assured performances, and intuitive editing and cinematography, What It Was masterfully conveys the emotional textures of Adina’s waking dream of a life.
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