Chile
Society of the Snow delivers a powerful narrative that transcends the screen, prompting audiences to contemplate the depths of human endurance.
Through its bleak beautiful cinematography and its off-kilter score, The Settlers is a riveting piece of work that will be among the year’s best films.
Spencer is fictitious, yet grounded in reality, a prolific examination of mental health through isolation and suffocation of tradition and restraint.
Equal parts fantastic and frustrating, Ema soars sky-high but cannot maintain those heights over the course of the film.
The Wolf House uses stop-motion animation to render the world inside the titular house as an ever-evolving nightmare, and is completely immersive despite its freakiness.
Ema is not like any other film that has come out this year so far. Its celebration of female agency is like a fever dream — indescribable and euphoric.
Much like life itself, Dominga Sotomayor’s Too Late to Die Young is a meandering, seemingly directionless tale but no less enrapturing for it.
Heavily reminiscent of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, Chameleon boasts three great performances – but still leaves a sour aftertaste.
Chilean film Chameleon depicts horrific sexual abuse of women, and doesn’t do enough to redeem itself; it is nothing but exploitative.
The Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman beautifully captures the story of a transgender woman, who is brought to exquisite life by Daniela Vega.
In 1973, Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile and demoted the previous civilian rule to replace it with a military dictatorship. Colonia Dignidad, commanded by Paul Schäfer and other allies of Pinochet, served as a prison for political detainees under his regime, despite the bastille being concealed by the veneer of a farming commune. With a historical premise as intriguing as this, it’s unfortunate how much Colonia’s (also known as The Colony) filmic portrayal falters more than it succeeds.
The 2010 Chilean mining incident was an enormous event that had the rare ability to unite most of the world to help the victims. The event gained massive media coverage and resulted in books, interviews, TV specials, etc. So, of course, a movie revival was inevitable.
