‘Clara Sola’ Review: A Strange and Mesmerizing Tale of Mysticism and Sexual Awakening in Rural Costa Rica

‘Clara Sola’ Review: A Strange and Mesmerizing Tale of Mysticism and Sexual Awakening in Rural Costa Rica

Without Wendy Chinchilla Araya, the dancer and first-time film actress playing the title role, “Clara Sola” would be a finely wrought tale of a later-life coming-of-age, in which mysticism, marginalization and sudden sexual jealousy collide on the fringes of a teeming Costa Rican forest. With her, and her feral movements and her keen but wary […]