Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. 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.
Acting
Aline Küppenheim's face does EVERYTHING. Watch her eyes.
Direction
Martelli's debut is controlled, patient, and absolutely merciless.
Cinematography
The beach house becomes a prison of sunlight and bourgeois guilt.
Director
Manuela Martelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pinochet's dictatorship killed and disappeared over 3,000 Chileans; the film captures how middle-class families chose not to know. Martelli grew up hearing these silences.
Carmen's domestic arc mirrors Chile itself: the 'protected' housewife represents a nation learning its own government was the monster all along. The beach house's claustrophobic open spaces mirror her trapped privilege.
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