The Puzzle

Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back to the shop where they bought the gift for another puzzle. There her eye is caught by a notice on the message board: Partner for puzzle tournament wanted. Maria musters her courage and, despite her family's misgivings, answers the announcement.

Keywords

  • Female Filmmakers
  • Just released
  • South America Cinema
  • Women's Rights
  • Africa
  • debut
  • seduction

Actors

  • Mercedes Fraile
  • Nestor Caniglia
  • Jimena Ruiz Echazú
  • Henny Trayles
  • Arturo Goetz
  • María Onetto
  • Julián Doregger
  • Nora Zinsky
  • Denise Groesman
  • Pacho Guerty
  • Felipe Villanueva
  • Marcela Guerty
  • Gabriel Goity
  • Mirta Wons

Director

  • Natalia Smirnoff

Drama

1h 28min

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Argentina
2009
Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back to the shop where they bought the gift for another puzzle. There her eye is caught by a notice on the message board: Partner for puzzle tournament wanted. Maria musters her courage and, despite her family's misgivings, answers the announcement.

Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back to the shop where they bought the gift for another puzzle. There her eye is caught by a notice on the message board: Partner for puzzle tournament wanted. Maria musters her courage and, despite her family's misgivings, answers the announcement.


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