The glacial pace is counterpointed by wavy heat and golden, nostalgic hues. There are small subplots and unhurried exchanges: a young girl named Clara (Magdalena Tótoro) searches for her missing Bernese mountain dog residents discuss the broken water mains and the possibility of connecting to the electrical grid. It definitely should not to be confused with Nicolas Winding Refn's Too Old to Die Young Sofia lives with her quiet luthier father (Andrés Aliaga) but plans to move in with her musician mother in the city after the commune’s New Year celebrations, which her mother is expected to attend. She, however, is more interested in chain-smoking, listening to Mazzy Star and flirting with Ignacio (Matías Oviedo), an older visitor with a motorbike. Lucas (Antar Machado), an aspiring teenage musician, is in love with 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernández), the gamine, precocious heroine. It takes some time for DOP Inti Briones’s unhurried, summery shots to coalesce into a narrative as the camera drifts across a gauzy landscape, gamboling kids, and outdoor get-togethers. These larger socio-political developments have little bearing of the lives of the artists, musicians, children and dogs who live in the far-flung ecological community of Peñalolén. Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a balmy semi-autobiographical coming-of-age set in 1990, at a moment when Chile was rebuilding and recovering from the reign of Pinochet.
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