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Venice, 31^st August 2024 - EL AFFAIRE MIU MIU, directed by Argentine film director and producer Laura Citarella, is the 28^th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales. The acclaimed short-film series invites today’s most profound and original female directors to investigate vanity and femininity in the 21^st century. A fashion campaign in Latin America takes an Italian model to the Argentine Pampas. The clothing brand: Miu Miu. The city: Trenque Lauquen. The Italian crew members stroll through the city as if they were a queen’s retinue paying a visit to a foreign land. The model, beautiful and exotic, greets the people who stop on the street to admire her. A few days later, the detectives of the town—all women— begin an investigation into a disappearance: the model has gone missing after the shoot. The last images of her are taken from security camera footage, showing a woman darting strangely through the streets of Trenque Lauquen. The investigators follow the clues within the Miu Miu clothes and the Argentine landscape to try and trace the model’s path.

This latest instalment of Miu Miu Women’s Tales is a wry, female-driven Hitchcockian detective story. In El Affaire Miu Miu, we see Italian style meet Argentine supernaturalism. Laura Citarella’s obsession with women who are “keener for adventures than anything else” collides with the metanarrative of the women who become the faces of Miu Miu. Along the way, in the countryside, the film’s investigators find pieces of the dress she was wearing. Meanwhile, we spectators observe the model making her pilgrimage across the pampas and gradually merging into the natural scenery. As if she were the very embodiment of the landscape itself. A fusion of a character, a dress, and a place.