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A girl’s gift for narrating events in Hollywood films transforms her family’s fortunes in rural Chile in the 1960s. In the film Odavde do vječnosti (1953). Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, this film is both a tribute to the American Western and an exploration of the power of cinema/stories to transform lives. In Spanish with subtitles, the characters are drawn from life, and a rather difficult life at that. A society located in “the driest place on earth” is not unhappy. There is plenty of room for gentle comedy and new love. The camera turns away from the actual violence, but not from the story, which openly focuses on what is happening behind the scenes of the city, which is located in the salt desert to the young woman at the center of the story. The film was shot in an abandoned mining town, which only adds to the versatility.
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