Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
SANTIAGO, ITALIA
Synopsis
Since September 1973, after the coup d’état of General Pinochet, the Italian embassy in Santiago has hosted hundreds of asylum seekers. The story of this dramatic period, where some Italian diplomats saved many lives, is told through interviews with the protagonists.
Synopsis
Since September 1973, after the coup d’état of General Pinochet, the Italian embassy in Santiago has hosted hundreds of asylum seekers. The story of this dramatic period, where some Italian diplomats saved many lives, is told through interviews with the protagonists.
Our take
A rare digression into non-fiction filmmaking from Nanni Moretti, Santiago, Italia reaps huge rewards from its structural simplicity. Intellectually probing and politically insightful in his interviews, Moretti remains off-camera—until a late-film intervention of piercing moral assessment.