Cinema Releases - Puzzle

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It’s Maria’s fiftieth birthday and she receives a jigsaw puzzle as a present. The discovery that she’s good at them sparks a new passion. Responding to an ad, she starts training with a rich bachelor for the national and potentially international jigsaw puzzle tournament. A devoted but slightly alienated housewife, she hides her new activity from her family, until she has to tell them she is participating in the national tournament.

Puzzle (Rompecabezas) is particularly strong in capturing Maria’s relationships to the men around her, the dynamics at home, as well as her own internal emotional turmoil.

Official Selection, Competition, Berlin Film Festival 2010

Natalia Smirnoff Director

Filmography Selected

Born in Buenos Aires in 1972, Natalia Smirnoff studied engineering and then went on to study film at the Buenos Aires film school. She has been a television director for seven years and has worked as an assistant director and casting director for Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Trapero, and other Argentinian directors.

Puzzle is her first feature-length film.