Winner Best Independent Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

I have not been so moved by a film since watching Tarkovsky.”

— Radio France Culture

Is American underground cinema dead? Proof that it is not—MAGDALENA VIRAGA, Nina Menkes’ first feature—sensually existentialist.”

— Liberation

Powerful, extraordinary, Menkes does not compromise in giving form to her disturbing visions.”

— Los Angeles Reader

A dreamlike blend of brothel, prison cell, and baroque cathedral—the bias is metaphysical, menstrual blood transubstantiated into the blood of the lamb.”

— Village Voice

Aspires to a new form of cinema”

— Le Monde