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Ariella
UK 2025
produced by
Leonora Garber, Mitchell Douglass, Michael Garsin, Mitch Garsin (executive), Joel Markham (executive), Mochi Garbersin (executive) for M.D Pictures, Markham Industries, Imperial Arts Agency, Backstory Alley Productions
directed by Michael Garsin
starring Nadia Casula, Oliver Silver, Nina Hatchwell, Mace Richards, Paul Besterman, Tanya Nicole, Lorenzo Camporese, Sarah T. Cohen, Carolyn Owlett, Scott Haran, David Wilks, Albert Giannitelli, Linda O'Dwyer, Gráinne Kelly, Olivia Lindsay, Wesley Lloyd, Robin Kirwan, Mark Denham, DeVaughan Gay, Aren Devlin, Kevin C. Platinum, Michael Garsin, Bubacar Balde, Matt Metcalfe, Colin Nwabueze
written and music by Michael Garsin
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Ariella (Nadia Casula) comes from a poor Brazilian family and has grown up
in the favelas - bzt somehow she has made it work and now studies
economics while working at a café - and it's there that she meets handsome
British businessman Ben (Oliver Siler), and the two fall head over heels
in love with one another. Eventually, he asks her to move to London and
move in with him - and she couldn't be happier. Unfortunately he's not
quite the rich businessman he has pretended to be and eventually they fall
on hard times - so hard that he asks her to sleep with an acquaintance for
money. Of course, she initially turns him downk but also of course he's
suave enough to talk her into it. This traumatizes her quite a bit and she
wants to leave Ben, but he talks her into staying, and not only that, he
talks her into taking up residence in a brothel. In the meantime, he's in
a war about his uncle's (Mace Richards) inheritance with the man's own
daughter Deborah (Nina Hatchwell), and Deborah soon realizes he can use
Ariella in this fight. Thing is, does she see a useful tool in Ariella, or
a disposable pawn?
Now I can't say I agree with all the film's artostoc choices, it's at
times too casually or just too tarkly lighted, which I guess was done for
realism's sake but really just obscures what's happening at times. But
where the film really triumphs is on an emotional level: Thanks to a
clever script that puts an emphasis on characters and character arcs,
Ariella's descent into prostitution becomes relatable and palpable. And
Nadia Casula's first rate performance that portrays Ariella as much more
than just a victim makes the story palpable. So in all a very compelling
and totally worthwhile film for sure.
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