When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El C...
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
The Kellys are a family that like pretending and will pretend leaving on vacation while locking themselves at home.
此片改编自智利作家José Donoso的小说，荣获了39项国际大奖，是智利历史上最非凡的电影。讲述的故事发生在一幢残垣败瓦的大宅里，五十八岁的唐安德斯是单身没落贵族，读了一辈子书却活得毫不起劲，颓废抑郁，十七岁的乡村少女艾丝蒂拉受雇照顾其年迈而脾气暴躁的祖母，渐渐地唐安德斯对她产生了无法抗拒的爱恋。当艾丝蒂拉结识了一名工人阶级少年后，一座死火山终于爆发，不惜将一切淹没。从颓废与崩析刻划心理矛盾与超乎常态的情绪波动，一直是智利当代文学大家荷西唐劳素(José Donoso)的特色。由摄影指导晋身导演的卡奥治，继前作《镜中月》后再次改编唐劳素的小说。对原著丰富含蓄的细节和角色的执迷拿捏准确，在智利、蒙特利尔和意大利2000年的电影节均赢得最佳导演奖。
