The Princess of France

Full of clever wordplay and moments of sheer cinematic bliss, The Princess of France sees Piñeiro making his most ambitious film yet. After the death of his father, Victor returns to Buenos Aires from Mexico and rekindles his artistic pursuits and romantic foibles. While staging a radio play of Love’s Labour’s Lost, Victor and the cast—which includes a number of his former, current, and potential lovers—become increasingly enmeshed with the fiction they’re reworking. Once again, Piñeiro doesn’t update Shakespeare to the present day so much as summon the original spirit of his comedies. With the most modest resources, the young director is able to open up dizzying realms of possibility. (70 mins., DCP)