48/30
Scenario
A girl’s gift for recounting the events of Hollywood films transforms her family’s fortunes in rural Chile in the 1960s. Presents Odavde do věčnosti (1953). Seen at the Toronto International Film Festival, this film is both 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 drawn from life and a rather difficult life. Located 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 the story, which candidly addresses what goes on behind the scenes in the town set in a saltpeter desert for the young woman at the center of the story. The film was shot on location in an abandoned mining town, which only adds to versions.
