Bonsái

Chile, Argentina, France, Portugal

2011

102 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Cristián Jiménez, Alejandro Zambra

CAST Diego Noguera, Nathalia Galgan, Gabriela Arancibia, Trinidad González, Hugo Medina, Andrés Waas

MUSIC Caroline Chaspoul, Eduardo Henriquez

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Telluride, Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), Chicago (World Cinema), AFI FEST (New Auteurs), Stockholm (Latin Visions), Istanbul (International Competition), San Francisco (New Directors), BAFICI (Competencia Internacional)

Synopsis

At the end of this film, Emilia dies and Julio remains alone. Actually, Julio had remained alone several years before Emilia’s death. What matters is that at the end, Emilia dies and Julio does not die. Julio lives and Emilia does not live. The rest is fiction. –Cannes Film Festival

Director

Cristián Jiménez

Valdivia (Chile), 1975. Prior to becoming a moviemaker, he wrote short stories and studied Sociology in Santiago de Chile, Heidelberg and London. He has written and directed several shorts, including El tesoro de los caracoles and XX, winners of awards at festivals in Chile, Germany, France and the USA. He also co-wrote the features 199 recetas para ser feliz and Los debutantes, and worked as a TV producer in the UK. Ilusiones ópticas, his first feature, was selected for Films in Progress 13 (Toulouse 2008) and 14 (San Sebastian 2008). —San Sebastian International Film Festival

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6Sep12

A priori me pareció una buena película con referencias claras del cine indie americano me viene a la mente la última de Miranda July por ej. ahora solo quedan las ganas de leer el libro.