A Decent Woman

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Art Director Carnicero, Lucía

Cinematographer Kasseroller, Roman

Costume Designer Gonzalez, Pilar

Film Editor Godoy, Ana

Music Jimin Kim

Music Jongho You

Producer Godoy, Ana

Producer Payueta, Nicolás

Producer Valenta Rinner, Lukas

Screenwriter Godoy, Ana

Screenwriter Gurevich, Ariel

Screenwriter Shanly, Martín

Screenwriter Valenta Rinner, Lukas

Production Company Jeonju Cinema Project

Production Company Nabis Filmgroup

Principal Cast Mockert, Iride

Principal Cast Sayavedra, Mariano

Principal Cast Seijo, Pablo

Principal Cast Shanly, Martín

Principal Cast Strenitz, Andrea

DESCRIPTION

TIFF NOTE

Bodies: everyone has one, yet few things in this world alarm us like the sight of one without clothes on it. This wry satire from Austro-Argentine writer-director Lukas Valenta Rinner hinges on the difference between a clothed, "decent" body and an unclothed, "indecent" one. Civilization - in a certain sense, at least - hangs in the balance.

Poor Belén (Iride Mockert) just needed a job. She's wound up cleaning house for a rich family in a gated community somewhere outside Buenos Aires, a place where the mansions are stripped of all character and the grounds are landscaped into immaculate blandness. But on the other side of a towering shrub, Belén catches a glimpse of something that will change her forever: naked people, lots of them, just hanging out. Belén develops a double life, spending half her time in a deodorized haven of tennis courts and cupcake-baking classes, and the other half taking Tantra workshops and exchanging sweaty embraces.

Echoing the deadpan social studies of Ulrich Seidl and Yorgos Lanthimos, A Decent Woman regards both parts of Belén's existence with equal coolness. Roman Kasseroller's exacting cinematography is often fixed on a wide space or pushing in on some weird activity. Valenta Rinner is not advocating for or against any so-called alternative lifestyle. His interests are anthropological, and maybe a little anarchist. One of his nudist priestesses speaks of defending her liberties to the death, and she means it. You have to fight for your right to party naked - and A Decent Woman follows through on that fight with a sense of marvellous mayhem.

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