Highlights
The Movie Teller
La Contadora de Películas
Swiss Premiere
Lone Scherfig
Spain, France, Chile
FOR THE LOVE OF CINEMA
2023, 116'
VO. Spanish
ST. English
With
Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl
1966, in a small town in Chile's Atacama Desert, every day is the same except Sunday: people go to the movies. When money runs out, a child is asked to go alone. She proves particularly adept at recounting what she has seen.
"We are the fabric that dreams are made of" Shakespeare. Adapted from the novel written by Hernán Rivera Letelier, who himself lived and worked in the Atamaca mines, the filmmaker has taken up a project that Walter Salles was planning to realize. In Chile, in the world's driest desert, austere and spectacular, people not only watch the stars, they also go to the movies on Sundays. In 1966, in a small mining town, a family's ritual is disrupted by a tragedy. The father decides to send his daughter alone to the movies due to lack of money. She has a gift for recounting the films she's seen, from Spartacus to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and bringing them back to life for those who weren't there... "I think we're made of the same material as movies", or how, in an imperfect world, cinema can save your life.
Gaëlle Vidalie
Gaëlle Vidalie
Direction
Lone Scherfig
Screenplay
Rafa Russo, Walter Salles, Isabel Coixet
Image
Daniel Aranyó
Editing
Bernat Aragonés, Jordi Azategui
Sound
Natxo Ortuzar, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Miguel Huete
Music
Fernando Velázquez
Production
A Contracorriente Films (Adolfo Blanco, Manuel Monzón), Altiro Films (Andrés Mardones), Vincent Juillerat
With
Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl, Sara Becker, Alondra Valenzuela
World sales
Latido Films
Thursday 9 November |
20:15
