"Menina," a Bittersweet Saga of Cross-culture
The film "Menina," actress Cristina Pinheiro's debut feature, does its directorial best to rise up to the league of films that capture the haunting emotions of being uprooted from the native land, in this case Portugal, to survive in an exile. The story touches upon the sensitive issues of cross-identities as it forms a kind of trans-European subgenus. The film deals with the similar crisis as of "All the Dreams of t…