Ostomedo
Joined May 1999
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This movie teaches us a lot of useful things. First: making good movies about political issues is possible. Second: You can make a good chilean movie about chilean aspects of chilean life (many chilean directors want to do French, Italian, or New York look-like movies, ashamed of their own roots). Third: You can a good movie about political issues, about Chilean stuff and have success in both theaters and critic. A very human and poetic love story during the Pinochet's dictatorship is shown in La Frontera, when oppositors were sent to little villages far away from everything and a series of strange relations start. With great performances of and Patricio Contreras and Gloria Laso. The scene in the bar when the men are dancing between them is just memorable. Hector Rios' cinematography is superb. If you can see this movie, I recommend it.
Presented as "the first chilean horror movie", this film is not only the first in this way. Is the first successful attempt to do a movie for entertainment. Until now usually chilean directors tried to do "auteur" films with different results. So, Angel Negro is not a deep or very artistic film but keeps you in your seat all the way. I worked as cameraman there and was a tough work. We struggle with serious budget problems but fortunately all this misery didn't brought a B-series movie. Andrea Freund's performance and Arnaldo Rodríguez cinematography are, in my humble opinion, the highest points.
This is a very good movie made by one of most important and consistent chilean filmmaker. Silvio Caoizzi show us all the decadence of chilean aristocracy in the early 1900s, but, as Andalu said, some things have barely changed in Chile. The love that Julio feels for a local prostitute is destroyed by the raw, classy and decadent reality he must live. This movie was voted as "Chilean film of the century" for local public. The sepia colour, some characters and all its unique atmosphere are the best in this movie. Above all of that, it was made in a period when no one were filming movies in Chile, and that is a big merit.