Candy or Mint

Caluga o menta

Chile

1990

100 Min

Color

Spanish

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Gustavo Frías, Gonzalo Justiniano, José Andrés Peña

CAST Hector Vega Mauricio, Patricia Rivadeneira, Aldo Parodi, Myriam Palacios, Luis Alarcón, Cecilia Godoy

Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile’s transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class “loca”, Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties. —IMDb

Director

Gonzalo Justiniano

Gonzalo Justiniano was born in Chile in 1955, and after studying at the Paris University and the Louis Lumière Film School in France, Justiniano moved back to Chile to produce Los guerreros pacifistas (The Pacifist Warriors), a documentary about the punk movement in Chile. His first feature film, Los hijos de la guerra fría, won the award for Best First Feature in Biarritz, among other awards. Since 2000, he has directed the feature films El Leyton, B-Happy—winner of several international awards—and Lokas. —cinelasamericas.org