Article 4FPPX Too Late to Die Young review – misty tale of a changing Chile

Too Late to Die Young review – misty tale of a changing Chile

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Phil Hoad
from World news | The Guardian on (#4FPPX)

A teenager seeks to escape from her remote commune just after the fall of Pinochet in this atmospheric but elusive drama

History provided a resplendent context for simple domestic events in last year's Latin American standout Roma. But in Dominga Sotomayor Castillo's Too Late to Die Young - which also features a showpiece New Year's brushfire - history rises up almost unseen like smoke and hangs in the air around the inhabitants of the Chilean rural commune where this film is set.

It's set in 1990 just after the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship, and 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernindez) is seeking a route out of the stifling inertia of the backwoods setup her father has chosen for her. A few ominous incidents - a dead horse poisoning the watercourse, a break-in - hint at the outside world encroaching, but the community's dope-smoking adolescents barely notice. It's unclear if anyone, not least the adults dithering about organising a power supply, has much appetite for the future.

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