This is an unusual film by Helvio Soto who is best known for the remarkable political and historical dramas he made before and after going into exile following the 1973 coup in Chile. Made just before Raúl Ruiz’s Tres tristes tigres with some of the same crew, the film shares some elements of style but couldn’t be more different in terms of tone. It is a romantic comedy about two university students (pre-med boy and art girl) from the countryside falling in love in Valparaiso. The film displays a lot of the brilliance of subsequent films by Soto (as well as those by the film’s editor, Carlos Piaggio and its assistant director, Silvio Caiozzi) and represents a very rare attempt in Chile at the free and hip kind of romantic comedy of the late 1960s.Read More »