Elisa & Marcela (2019)

Original title

Elisa y Marcela

Directed by

Isabel Coixet

Genre

drama film, biographical film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 404 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In early 1900s Spain, two women fall in love and decide to marry. To do so, one of them disguises herself as a man so they can be wed in a Catholic church.

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What happens

Elisa & Marcela (Spanish: Elisa y Marcela) is a 2019 Spanish biographical romantic drama film directed by Isabel Coixet. Starring Natalia de Molina and Greta Fernández, the plot concerns the story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women who posed as a heterosexual couple in order to marry in 1901 at Church of Saint George in A Coruña, becoming the first same-sex matrimony recorded in Spain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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