San Diego Women's Film Festival 2008

“How singular life is, how changeable! What a little thing it takes to save you or to lose you.”

Proud Iza is a contemporary retelling, set in New York City, of “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant.

Samuel, a humble man and a devoted husband, cares for his wife, Iza, as he does for the most delicate petals in his flower shop. Vainglorious and disdainful, Iza, resents their meager living and Samuel’s banal satisfaction with their decidedly modest existence. She dreams of a life of leisure and adoration, yet finds it perpetually beyond her reach. Until one evening, when she is given the chance to transcend this prosaic routine and brush cheeks with high society. A vision in ball gown and borrowed jewels, not even Iza could have anticipated what would follow…