Film Review: Too Late to Die Young
Film Review: Too Late to Die Young
By
Ben Miller
A rustic commune outside Santiago serves as the backdrop for this Chilean coming-of-age story.
This article is adapted from AQ’s latest issue on Latin America's anti-corruption movement.
The latest feature from Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor is, as she puts it, “an invitation to another time.”
Set just outside Santiago in the summer of 1989, this moody coming-of-age story addresses Chile’s uneasy transition to democracy only indirectly. The director, whose dissonant portrayals of family life draw...
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