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Director
  
Duration
  

Music director
  
Alexander Zekke

Country
  
Chile, France

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Running time
  
1h 35m

Screenplay
  
Marcela Said, Julio Rojas

Language
  
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Release date
  
20 May 2013 (2013-05-20) (Cannes)

Writer
  
Julio Rojas, Marcela Said

Cast
  
Gregory Cohen
(Francisco),
María Izquierdo
(Teresa),
Bastián Bodenhöfer
(Uncle),
Francisca Walker
,
Emilia Lara

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The Summer of Flying Fish (Spanish: El Verano de los Peces Voladores) is a Chilean-French film directed by Marcela Said.

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The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

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Plot

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Manena is on vacation in the south of Chile with her father Francisco, a wealthy landowner. Francisco is obsessed with eliminating the carp fish in his artificial lagoon, resorting to increasingly extreme methods such as using explosives. Manena seems to be the only one who perceives the growing tension her father’s actions provoke in the local Mapuche community, who claim access to these lands.

Brief Review

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The Chilean female director, Marcela Said, very delicately handles the theme of the storyline based on the long-standing conflict between the native Mapuche and the white land owners of European descent, and very skillfully depicts the drama and emotion in the film in a lifelike reality, which is further complemented by his choice of actors who have no experience in film acting. The overall effect of the film is a blend of both fiction and non-fiction. Apart from making an effort to give the story a graphic touch, the director appears to have tried bringing to light the gross injustice meted out by the rich white settlers to the native South American Mapuche tribesmen.

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The film based on a socio-political theme may draw a distinctive section of the cinema crowd but not much on the commercial market.

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The debut directorial venture of ex-documentary director, however, has had some critical reviews too on the media coverage following the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Although very successful in building up on-the-edge-of-your-seat sequences, the movie suffers from poor narrative, shallow characterization and vague motivation.

Cast

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  • Gregory Cohen – Francisco
  • Francisca Walker – Manena
  • María Izquierdo – Teresa
  • Emilia Lara
  • References

    The Summer of Flying Fish Wikipedia
    The Summer of Flying Fish IMDb The Summer of Flying Fish themoviedb.org


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