Watch The Trailer For Quirky Argentine Comedy HORTENSIA

There's a little bit of Jared Hess and Wes Anderson in the DNA of Diego Lublinsky and Alvaro Urtizberea's quirky comedy Hortensia. The story of a shoe obsessed young woman looking to subsume her grief with a new boyfriend following the passing of her taxidermist father, this one premiered recently in Mar Del Plata and is now gearing up for local theatrical release. Here's how the festival described it:

A distant cousin of Amélie and some of Wes Anderson's characters, Hortensia is a somewhat shy and tender young girl who lives in a world where every character has some little obsession that makes it unique. In that universe where the air of the greater Buenos Aires coexists with the echoes of a Sixties' Soviet universe, this altruist comedy sketches a game of relations -a compendium of the strange elements and coincidences necessary for any human interaction to prosper. But it's also a tale of initiation, a heroine's journey from a labyrinth of boxes and display windows to freedom, which lies across a series of obstacles that involve leaving infancy behind and becoming an adult. With the deadpan tone of an intimate comedy, Hortensia goes through her father's death by electrocution and her boyfriend is rude cheat with one of her friends -but those who knows how to persevere and never quit eventually find what they deserve. And Hortensia -in her universe of shiny shoes and moose heads- deserves love, and a life free from the yoke of sad men who wear too much hair gel.

Check out the theatrical trailer below!