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Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
21 March 1937, Wadesboro, North Carolina, USA
3 April 1981, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
23 March 1963, New York City, New York, USA
August1965, Seattle, Washington, USA
November 01, 2017
An intense and sometimes claustrophobic allegory about the pitfalls of the immigrant experience under the generic disguise of a psychological thriller.
November 01, 2017
At a lean eighty minutes, Most Beautiful Island has little extraneous material in it, and Asensio spins a suspenseful web that delivers a truly shocking - and strangely satisfying - revelation.
March 20, 2017
"Most Beautiful Island" earns whatever trust audiences have put in its unproven storyteller ...
November 03, 2017
Most Beautiful Island may take a while to get going, but once it does, you'll be eager to see what Asensio does next.
March 16, 2017
A short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama, Ana Asensio's Most Beautiful Island is a worthy winner of the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature.
March 28, 2017
Most Beautiful Island summons viewers into its seductive web, lashing out with teeth-grinding tension when you least expect it.
March 20, 2017
The story Asensio spins is delicate and threatening, like a spider's web. The suspense woven through the third act is nauseating, and a bit sublime.
October 09, 2017
...a fascinating and tense low budget film drawn from real life inspiration.
October 28, 2017
Many genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just take the money and run.
March 15, 2017
The pivotal scenes may be fictionalised, but the prickling, precarious threat is clammily authentic and inspired by the experiences of the film's writer, director and star ...
November 02, 2017
A modest but effective writing-directing debut for Ms. Asensio, who also stars.
March 16, 2017
Despite some missteps, there are enough strengths to mark this as a promising debut.
