Oriana (film) - Reception

Reception

The film is generally referred to as a Venezuelan gothic love story, probably for the elements of the storyline but also for the narrative used on it and the camera work that creates a dark atmosphere through it. The film was first showed in the Toronto Film Festival on September 14, 1985. Later, it was presented in the New York Film Festival where it received a general warm and positive review. Nonetheless, there were critics that didn't find the film quite likeable and complained about the slow rhythm and the structure of it, that is at some point hard to follow. The New York Times, considered the film "a pretty movie but not a very engaging one".

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