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Being your place on the web to make Pat feel all warm and snuggly... or just a place to type random text... ANYTHING to get those badgers, mushrooms and African snakes out of my head!
Monday, June 20, 2005
Chile
Got a chance to see to good film this weekend...
MACHUCA
Came out in April. It's a VERY well crafted film about an 11-yr-old boy's coming of age in 1973 Chile. Right at the time when Pres. Allende was courting Cuba and Russia (before he got his head blown off by the military loyalists, who then supported Pinochet... and boy, wasn't Chile so much better under him!). Anyway, it's a touching story and what's great is that it sticks very firmly to a "through the eyes of a child" point of view. The kid is quite a good actor. Won tons of awards and is the selection from Chile for the foreign film Academy Award.
Wish I could get out more often to see indie films. I'd have not thought it possible, but mainstream filmmaking is sucking more than it did last year so far.
MACHUCA
Came out in April. It's a VERY well crafted film about an 11-yr-old boy's coming of age in 1973 Chile. Right at the time when Pres. Allende was courting Cuba and Russia (before he got his head blown off by the military loyalists, who then supported Pinochet... and boy, wasn't Chile so much better under him!). Anyway, it's a touching story and what's great is that it sticks very firmly to a "through the eyes of a child" point of view. The kid is quite a good actor. Won tons of awards and is the selection from Chile for the foreign film Academy Award.
Wish I could get out more often to see indie films. I'd have not thought it possible, but mainstream filmmaking is sucking more than it did last year so far.
