Story
A girl’s talent for recounting events from Hollywood movies transforms her family’s fortune in rural 1960s Chile. Features Odavde do vječnosti (1953). Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, this film is an homage to American Westerns and an exploration of the power of cinema/storytelling to transform a life. In Spanish with subtitles, the characters are taken from life, and from a very hard life. Set in the “driest place on earth,” the community is not unhappy. There is plenty of room for gentle comedy and young love. The camera moves away from the actual violence, but not from the story, which honestly addresses what happens behind the scenes in the town set in a saltpeter desert to the young woman at the center of the story. The film was shot on location in an abandoned mining town, which only adds to the believability.