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VIDEO: DRAMA SHOWRUNNERS
The Summer of Flying Fish (El Verano de los Peces
Voladores): Cannes Review
3:42 PM PDT 5/21/2013 by Stephen Dalton
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Chilly family drama from Chile.
Cannes screening
(Directors’ Fortnight)
Starring
Francisca Walker,
Gregory Cohen,
Carlos Cayuqueo,
Guillermo Lorca, María
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Director
Marcela Said
Dramatic debut by former documentary maker Marcela Said delivers powerful atmosphere in
service of thin story.
A bourgeois Chilean family spend summer at their lakeside estate in this atmospheric drama, which is
playing in the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. The narrative feature debut of former documentary
director Marcela Said, The Summer of Flying Fish is full of arresting images of Chilean nature –
ghostly morning mist, lapping waves, armies of moths, steam-shrouded hot springs. The story is shot
through with class and racial friction, but falls short of the angry social polemic or politically charged
horror movie hinted at in its pressure-cooker mood and creepy backwoods setting. Further festival
bookings seem likely, but the localized context and opaque narrative will be a tough sell to overseas
audiences.
OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS
The mood is ominous from the start as pet dogs go missing,
heavy-handed police harass the indigenous Mapuche population,
and locals mutter darkly about mythic monsters stalking the
woods. Meanwhile, wealthy landowner Don Francisco (Gregory
Cohen) bickers with his rebellious teenage daughter Manena
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