Anahi Gausman

An aging actress' faltering efforts to prop up her fading career and her weekend sojourn to the countryside provide rising Argentine filmmaker Anahi Berneri with much to reflect upon in the subtly conceived "Encarnacion." Though certainly less radical and socially worlds apart from her fascinating debut, "A Year Without Love," new pic is a cogent, almost intuitive study of female self-identity and body perception, and would be inconceivable without star Silvia Perez. Fest travels will take the film far and wide, though buyers may balk at the film's deliberate understatement.