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This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
A married professor of music has a normal life until the day he meets an unusual women, 20 years younger than he. He gets involved in a love relation with her. At the beginning everything looks normal, nevertheless after some time with her, he begins questioning his whole life, breaking with the comfortable and conventional existence he used to have.
The imminent death of a matriarch forces her whole family to reunite. From her dying confession, other hidden episodes will come to light. Each of the family members will face what they would prefer remained buried. Nobody is free of killing for love.
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.
A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992.
A sleepwalking psychology student wants to recover an unknown image of herself. Like a lost soul, she search her image among the dead. Only then she will fulfill her wish.