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A daughter looks on whilst her parents dissolve their
marriage in the bleak landscape backdrop of northern Chile |
Two children travel with their parents from Santiago Chile to the north for a family holiday. As the story develops we realise that the parents are in the process of separating and we see the older child the girl slowly come to realizing it. Totally unsentimental the whole film is brilliantly directed. The acting too is beautifully under-played, especially that of the children and in particular the ten year old Lucia (Santi Ahumada). This film may be a hard sit for some given the long takes and little action as we are made to feel boxed inside a car on a long journey. The uneasy relations enhaces the claustrophobia one might otherwise naturally feel and the tension is only ever disturbed by the children breaking the monotony and silence of the parents. I enjoyed listening to the language and seeing the northern Chilean country side and was touched by Lucia's forced coming of age.
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