Too Late to Die Young

Director: Dominga Sotomayor

2018 / 110min / DCP

It’s the sweltering final days of 1990 in Chile and, after 17 years under the control of General Augusto Pinochet, the country is preparing to transition to a democratically elected government. All of which is of little immediate concern to disgruntled teenager Sofia (Demian Hernández), living alongside her father in a remote bohemian enclave in the Andean foothills that she yearns to escape to join her mother in Santiago—or, barring that, for anything unexpected to interrupt the routine in this sun-dappled off-the-grid “utopia.” “Sotomayor approaches her characters and their problems with subtlety and tact, and is more interested in reading their glances and gestures than in putting words in their mouths… Above all an achievement in mood and implication. Sotomayor has a way of structuring scenes and composing images that makes everything perfectly clear but not obvious.” —The New York Times

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