Also Directed by José Luis Torres Leiva
During one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation hours in nature, sleeping in the sun, learning how to drive, cleaning the house, kissing for the first time, swimming at night or just walking and talking, while the day slowly unravels into small fragments of happiness and discovery.
Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.
Blind and deaf people converse, question, surprise and educate each others. Fingers move about quickly, translation follows promptly, both visible and audible, hands get touched and squeezed, and out of their tactfulness, sentences, stories, reserve and emotions arise
A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer.
A film of people who daydream. A special dream that marked something in their lives, either because it was premonitory or prophetic, because it took them to a lost or forgotten place of their childhood or because he faced them with a fear that they believed to be insurmountable.
A prominent Chilean documentary, shares his family album with the film editor of his later works. A review of one hundred photographs and a quiet conversation will rise to memories of the films of one of the most personal filmmakers.
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.
Everything resides in the mind of Lois, schizophrenic artist and a strong follower of Virginia Woolf, who says, "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind." The protagonist gives life to the story, confronting his lucidity to the difficulties that torment him: contradictions, achievements, joys and pains, which build a reflective and emotional language that accounts for the mysterious mechanism of the human mind.
