Encompassing a mixture of oddball comedies, genre-bending kaleidoscopic dramas, entertaining crime capers, haunting ghost stories and nail-biting thrillers, the 62nd BFI London Film Festival revealed the ten contenders for the Official Competition,
Too Late to Die Young (Tarde para morir joven) (2018)
Too Late to Die Young (Tarde para morir joven) (2018)
NAME OF FILM: TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN)
DIRECTOR(S): Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
STARRING: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro
GENRE: Drama Film
SYNOPSIS: In this angular, sun-faded coming-of-age drama, Sotomayor Castillo excavates a certain feeling of youth in a teenage girl on the verge of adulthood: too old for naivete, too young for the hurt that comes with fledgling romance just outside the bounds of playground love. At a gathering of families seeking utopian, communal living in the mountains outside Santiago, 16-year-old Sofia (newcomer Demian Hernández) undergoes profound changes—her father increasingly distant, her mother nowhere in sight, and her slightly older love interest just out of firm grasp—scaffolding into a familiar feeling of tender malaise. As the harshness of the Pinochet regime began to fade from view in the early 1990s, Sofia—and so many like her—became an adult.
