A film that reminded me of Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman, both in tone and in accessing and assessing the protagonist’s headspace, among one of the highlights in the Directors’ Fortnight section this year we found Manuela Martelli‘s directorial debut — the second to last film to screen in the section will indeed be launched in North America perhaps as early as this fall. The Kino Lorber folks landed 1976 – the psychological drama with nasty overclouds of the Pinochet’s regime and the upper crust bourgeoise will likely be a contender for showings at Telluride, TIFF and NYFF.
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
