Director Dominga Sotomayor’s Too Late To Die Young screens at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) Friday August 30th, Saturday August 31st, and Sunday September 1st. The screenings begin at 7:30 each evening. Facebook invite can be found Here.
Set in 1990 Chile at the end of Pinochet’s reign, Too Late to Die Young focuses on 16-year-old Sofía (Demian Hernández), who, like most leads in coming of age stories, is itching to be a little bit older than what she is. Sofía has a clear, age-appropriate suitor in Lucas (Antar Machado), but she’s drawn to a cool older guy named Ignacio (Matías Oviedo) instead. Director Sotomayor has a keen eye for visuals, calling to mind recent independent touchstones such as Beasts of the Southern Wild.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster...
Set in 1990 Chile at the end of Pinochet’s reign, Too Late to Die Young focuses on 16-year-old Sofía (Demian Hernández), who, like most leads in coming of age stories, is itching to be a little bit older than what she is. Sofía has a clear, age-appropriate suitor in Lucas (Antar Machado), but she’s drawn to a cool older guy named Ignacio (Matías Oviedo) instead. Director Sotomayor has a keen eye for visuals, calling to mind recent independent touchstones such as Beasts of the Southern Wild.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster...
- 8/26/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the opening moments of “Too Late to Die Young,” a Chilean family crams into their car as they head off from their remote settlement to their last day of school. As the car makes its way down the dusty road, they peer back at the path behind them, where the family dog emerges from a cloudy mist. It’s a striking reveal, at once silly and mesmerizing, setting the scene for the kind of poetic flourishes that make director Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s third feature such a stunning assemblage of small moments.
“Too Late to Die Young” takes place in 1990, as Chile was reassembling its democracy after the fall of General Augusto Pinochet, but those broader sociopolitical developments have little to do with the lives depicted here. For 16-year-old Sofía (Demian Hernández), the bulk of her frustrations revolve around the drab routine she leads in the middle of nowhere.
“Too Late to Die Young” takes place in 1990, as Chile was reassembling its democracy after the fall of General Augusto Pinochet, but those broader sociopolitical developments have little to do with the lives depicted here. For 16-year-old Sofía (Demian Hernández), the bulk of her frustrations revolve around the drab routine she leads in the middle of nowhere.
- 8/13/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Back in form after her underwhelming sophomore film “Mar,” Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor returns to an exploration of childhood and its intersection with a particular grown-up world, one where idealism is no protection from inner emotional turmoil. “Too Late to Die Young” springs from the director’s experiences growing up in the alternative ecological community of Peñalolén, yet she’s broadened the perspective by focusing on two teens on the brink of adult awareness, silently examining their confused sensations while nonjudgmentally witnessing the dysfunction around them. While the film is perhaps longer than necessary, and the adult characters could use some fleshing out, this is a satisfying sensorial work, unmistakably grounded in independent South American cinema, and should see a thriving festival life.
Though only her third feature, “Too Late to Die Young” features an opening shot that’s unmistakably Sotomayor: a boy asleep in an old car. Harking back...
Though only her third feature, “Too Late to Die Young” features an opening shot that’s unmistakably Sotomayor: a boy asleep in an old car. Harking back...
- 8/7/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
A new teaser trailer for Aaron Burns' Madre, which recently made its world premiere at SXSW, warns that for one mother with a baby on the way, the terror is not only close to home, but inside it.
Check out the teaser trailer below, and keep an eye out for Madre on Netflix later this year, as the online service has acquired global streaming rights to the film, with a release planned for 2017. And, in case you missed it, check out more of our coverage from the SXSW Film Festival.
"Madre is directed by Aaron Burns (Knock, Knock, Green Inferno), who also wrote the original screenplay, and stars Chilean actress Daniela Ramírez (La Poseída, Los Archivos del Cardenal), Cristobal Tapia Montt (The Stranger), Matías Bassi (Pulseras Rojas) and Aida Jabolin. The film is produced by Nicolás López and Miguel Asensio Llamas.
Madre follows the story of Diana Prieto (Ramirez...
Check out the teaser trailer below, and keep an eye out for Madre on Netflix later this year, as the online service has acquired global streaming rights to the film, with a release planned for 2017. And, in case you missed it, check out more of our coverage from the SXSW Film Festival.
"Madre is directed by Aaron Burns (Knock, Knock, Green Inferno), who also wrote the original screenplay, and stars Chilean actress Daniela Ramírez (La Poseída, Los Archivos del Cardenal), Cristobal Tapia Montt (The Stranger), Matías Bassi (Pulseras Rojas) and Aida Jabolin. The film is produced by Nicolás López and Miguel Asensio Llamas.
Madre follows the story of Diana Prieto (Ramirez...
- 3/13/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in Miami Saturday while riding his bike is asking the public for help finding those responsible, People confirms. Alder Hill was riding his bike home after visiting his cousin when someone pulled him off it, dragged him into a nearby grassy field and shot him multiple times, according to The Miami Herald. Thus far, police have no leads on his killer. "His only mistake was riding a bike, maybe in the wrong neighborhood," Miami homicide Sgt. Julio Pino said at a press conference Thursday. "This was an execution that occurred here of an innocent child.
- 1/15/2016
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in Miami Saturday while riding his bike is asking the public for help finding those responsible, People confirms. Alder Hill was riding his bike home after visiting his cousin when someone pulled him off it, dragged him into a nearby grassy field and shot him multiple times, according to The Miami Herald. Thus far, police have no leads on his killer. "His only mistake was riding a bike, maybe in the wrong neighborhood," Miami homicide Sgt. Julio Pino said at a press conference Thursday. "This was an execution that occurred here of an innocent child.
- 1/15/2016
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
There are a lot of big names coming to the Toronto International Film Festival, but it's easy to forget that the festival is also a showcase for emerging filmmakers. And one director looking to make an impression this year is Isidora Marras, who will be unspooling her feature debut, "I Am Not Lorena," and we've got the first trailer for the movie. Starring Loreto Aravena, Paulina García, Maureen Junott, Lautaro Delgado, Gabriela Aguilera and Matías Oviedo, Marras co-wrote and directed this Kafkaesque thriller that follows an actress, Olivia, who finds herself in a peculiar position. She starts receiving phone calls from a collection agency looking for Lorena Ruiz, asking her to pay off a substantial debt. It's a simple case of mistaken identity, but one that won't go away, and soon even Olivia's friends and family aren't sure who she is, forcing her to track down the real Lorena and confront her.
- 8/29/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Blue Jasmine | Prisoners | Greedy Lying Bastards | Mister John | Hannah Arendt | Runner Runner | It's A Lot | Girl Most Likely | Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panther | Austenland
Blue Jasmine (12A)
(Woody Allen, 2013, Us) Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard. 98 mins
In the downward trajectory of late-era Allen comes a startling spike to remind us how great he still can be, especially when it comes to women's roles. This show belongs to Blanchett, playing a Manhattan one-percenter brought down to earth. Propped up by alcohol, drugs and her sister, she's an accident that's already happening, and a magnificent, tragicomic creation.
Prisoners (15)
(Denis Villeneuve, 2013, Us) Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano. 153 mins
A kidnapping case refuses to crack in this weighty, slippery whodunit.
Greedy Lying Bastards (12A)
(Craig Scott Rosebraugh, 2012, Us) 90 mins
Climate-change deniers get a dose of their own medicine, as this impassioned doc lays out a history of hypocrisy.
Mister John (15)
(Christine Molloy,...
Blue Jasmine (12A)
(Woody Allen, 2013, Us) Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard. 98 mins
In the downward trajectory of late-era Allen comes a startling spike to remind us how great he still can be, especially when it comes to women's roles. This show belongs to Blanchett, playing a Manhattan one-percenter brought down to earth. Propped up by alcohol, drugs and her sister, she's an accident that's already happening, and a magnificent, tragicomic creation.
Prisoners (15)
(Denis Villeneuve, 2013, Us) Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano. 153 mins
A kidnapping case refuses to crack in this weighty, slippery whodunit.
Greedy Lying Bastards (12A)
(Craig Scott Rosebraugh, 2012, Us) 90 mins
Climate-change deniers get a dose of their own medicine, as this impassioned doc lays out a history of hypocrisy.
Mister John (15)
(Christine Molloy,...
- 9/28/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Fernanda Urrejola, Matías Oviedo, Eric Kleinsteuber, Jorge Alis, Víctor González, Sofía García | Written and Directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
Written and Directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (Mandrill, Kiltro, The ABC’s of Death), Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman proudly claimed to be a ‘LatinXploitation’ flick and as such was a Chilean take on the grindhouse revival movement. Starring Matías Oviedo as a hapless young DJ who rubs his gangster boss the wrong way and becomes forced to track down the mysterious, deadly and sexy assassin known only as Machine Gun Woman (Fernanda Urrejola), which is a little more than he is likely to be capable of.
Ruthless Argentine kingpin Che Longana uses everything in his power to stop the woman who wants to kill him – a sexy and bloodthirsty mercenary known as “the machine gun woman” (Fernanda Urrejola). The staggering sum of cash he offers...
Written and Directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (Mandrill, Kiltro, The ABC’s of Death), Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman proudly claimed to be a ‘LatinXploitation’ flick and as such was a Chilean take on the grindhouse revival movement. Starring Matías Oviedo as a hapless young DJ who rubs his gangster boss the wrong way and becomes forced to track down the mysterious, deadly and sexy assassin known only as Machine Gun Woman (Fernanda Urrejola), which is a little more than he is likely to be capable of.
Ruthless Argentine kingpin Che Longana uses everything in his power to stop the woman who wants to kill him – a sexy and bloodthirsty mercenary known as “the machine gun woman” (Fernanda Urrejola). The staggering sum of cash he offers...
- 9/12/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Opening Night and Saturday
Frightfest 2013 opened on Thursday evening with Howard and John Ford’s The Dead 2: India, a sequel to their previous Africa-set zombie flick. To be honest, it wasn’t the most auspicious start to the weekend. A zombie epidemic reaches the Asian subcontinent and American engineer Nicholas (Joseph Millson) attempts to cross the country to reunite with his Indian girlfriend Ishani (Meenu Mishra), aided only by plucky orphan boy Javed (Anand Gopal). I didn’t catch The Dead, so the novelty of watching a Zombie film set anywhere other than Middle America (or Crouch End) was not lost on me.
The various locations around rural India are occasionally used rather well. Nicolas’s introductory scene is a slow pull out from extreme close up to a panoramic shot of him dangling from a wind turbine, which works really well and there several nicely implemented vistas. Much...
Frightfest 2013 opened on Thursday evening with Howard and John Ford’s The Dead 2: India, a sequel to their previous Africa-set zombie flick. To be honest, it wasn’t the most auspicious start to the weekend. A zombie epidemic reaches the Asian subcontinent and American engineer Nicholas (Joseph Millson) attempts to cross the country to reunite with his Indian girlfriend Ishani (Meenu Mishra), aided only by plucky orphan boy Javed (Anand Gopal). I didn’t catch The Dead, so the novelty of watching a Zombie film set anywhere other than Middle America (or Crouch End) was not lost on me.
The various locations around rural India are occasionally used rather well. Nicolas’s introductory scene is a slow pull out from extreme close up to a panoramic shot of him dangling from a wind turbine, which works really well and there several nicely implemented vistas. Much...
- 8/30/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Santiago (Matías Oviedo) is a DJ at a topless tango club who lives at home with his Mom and plays a lot of video games. One day he is taking a dump when he overhears gangster Che Sausage (Jorge Alis) putting a hit on a sexy assassin (Fernanda Urrejola) who calls herself The Machine Gun Woman even though she mostly uses automatic handguns. Che Sausage sniffs Santiago out of hiding, and threatens to kill him unless he can deliver a certain body part from a certain sexy assassin. So Santiago jumps in his whip and goes looking for the woman in the leather bikini, plowing his way through a disposable cast of supporting characters and adding zeros to the bounty on his head. [Continued ...]...
- 11/7/2012
- QuietEarth.us
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