Another View 2017 / Los perros / France, Chile 2017
Contemporary Chilean cinema is present at every major festival, and things were no different this year at Cannes where Marcela Said’s second movie played Critics’ Week. This disturbing psycho-romance with political overtones brings together pampered fortysomething Marina and Juan, a former army officer troubled by a dark past (starring Antonia Zegers and Alfredo Castro from The Club).
Contemporary Chilean cinema is present at every major festival, and things were no different this year at Cannes, where Marcela Said’s second movie played Critics’ Week. In this disturbing psycho-romance with political overtones, pampered fortysomething Marina takes up horseback riding to compensate for a father who ignores her and a husband who couldn't care less. Her riding teacher is Juan, who is twenty years her senior. A former army officer with a dark past, The Colonel, as he is known, is under investigation for human rights violations committed while in the military decades earlier. “I met several former soldiers who, when being investigated for their actions during the dictatorship, felt betrayed not only by their ‘military family,’ but also by the civilians who had previously supported the regime. I found this really intriguing,” confides Said. Her film shows that the invisible walls built by the privileged members of Chilean society, in a buck-passing attempt to cut themselves off from the past, are not impenetrable. The movie features top-flight performances from Antonia Zegers and Alfredo Castro, who also starred in The Club.
Karel Och
94 min / Color, DCP
Director Marcela Said
/ Screenplay Marcela Said
/ Dir. of Photography George Lechaptois
/ Editor Jean de Certeau
/ Art Director Maria Eugenia Hederra, Pascual Mena
/ Producer Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt, Augusto Matte
/ Production Cinema Defacto, Jirafa Films
/ Coproduction Rei Cine Argentina, Terratreme Films, Augenschein Filmproduktion
/ Cast Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Rafael Spregelburd, Alejandro Sieveking, Elvis Fuentes
/ Sales Films Boutique
Marcela Said (b. 1972, Santiago de Chile), director and screenwriter, studied aesthetics in Chile and film and media at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1999 she shot Valparaíso, and two years later she made the documentary I Love Pinochet. Her next two documentaries, Opus Dei, una cruzada silenciosa (2006) and The Young Butler (El mocito, 2011), were co-directed with Jean de Certeau, and the latter film premiered in Berlin’s Forum section. Said’s feature-film debut, The Summer of the Flying Fish (El verano de los peces voladores, 2013), was presented in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Films Boutique
Köpenicker Str. 184, 10997, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 306 953 7850
E-mail: [email protected]
Marcela Said
Film Director
Louis Balsan
Producer, Sales Agent
Susana Santos Rodrigues
Distributor, Festival Organizer
Gabor Greiner
Sales Agent
First-hand brews throughout the year.
Be among the first to learn about upcoming events and other news. We only send the newsletter when we have something to say.
