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Agustina Macri’s Miss Carbón Opens in Argentina to Warm Reviews

The film dramatizes Carla Rodríguez’s fight to work in a male-dominated mine under a legal framework shaped by Argentina’s 2012 gender identity law.

Overview

  • The ArgentinaSpain feature runs 93 minutes and is directed by Agustina Macri with a script by Erica Halvorsen and Mara Pescio.
  • Lux Pascal leads the cast as Carla Rodríguez, with critics highlighting her performance as central to the film’s impact.
  • Early reviews are broadly positive, with La Nación rating it “good” and Página|12 giving it 7 out of 10.
  • Critics note the film’s focus on transgender rights and entrenched labor traditions in Río Turbio’s mining community.
  • Some reviewers flag an emotionally heightened final stretch, even as they praise the film’s clarity of purpose and craft in adapting a real case.