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Guadalajara: Premio Maguey to Valerie Pachner

The Guadalajara festival internacional de cine has awarded Valerie Pachner for her mesmerizing performance in THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET with the Premio Maguey: "Pachner's performance startled and seared like no other in the Premio Maguey this year.", stated the jury.


The jury statement:
"Valerie Pachner's mesmerizing turn in director Marie Kreutzer's harrowing psychodrama has a mutative power, shifting between hauntedness, hunger, and primal sorrow with striking nuance. A keenly realized portrait of a woman desperately trying to untangle herself from her past, on the verge of a breakdown or a breakthrough, Pachner's performance startled and seared like no other in the Premio Maguey this year.