Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, is one of Latin America's most popular film-makers. The only woman director in the region to have achieved consistent international success, she made her first feature at the age of fifty-eight.Born into a traditional, aristocratic Argentine family, her films focused above all on women's issues. The six features she made between 1980 and 1993 all have female leads who seek to transgress limits: from Camila O'Gorman, executed in the nineteenth century for her love of a Catholic priest, to the remarkable nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mexico's foremost colonial poet and intellectual, whose enquiring mind was a threat to the discipline of the Church. Bemberg was, as in the title of her second film, senora de nadie, nobody's woman.This is the first major study of Bemberg's work. It contains the views of those who worked with her -- her producer, cinematographer, script writer, and actors -- along with her own comments about her work.