Chilean
My Last Round
Soon after middle-aged Octavio begins his romance with his young lover Hugo life gets complicated for both of them. Octavio is told he must give up boxing because he has a medical condition that could cause a brain hemorrhage, and Hugo gets fired from his job as he got the boss’s daughter pregnant. Determined to…
GLORIA
The moment we first glimpse Gloria the whole screen simply comes alive capturing the essence of this intoxicating vibrant woman. She’s at a mixer in her hometown of Santiago for other mature and older single people who are hoping the heady combination of Latin dance music and alcohol will help them make a romantic connection.…
OLD CATS
Isadora and Enrique are an elderly couple living in a large comfortable apartment in Santiago with their two old cats. The bane in their life is their highly strung daughter Rosario and her butch girlfriend Beatrice (who insists on being called Hugo) who want them to bankroll their latest hare-brained money-making scheme. However Isadora who has…
NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET
Chilean Raul Rutz was a prolific experimental filmmaker who worked mainly in France, and is probably best known to US audiences for movies such as ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ and ‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’. This is his very last film made when he was dying and I think is best described as his personal…
