year of production : 2008
Category : Fiction
Country : Chili
Language : Espagnol
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Santiago, 1978. In the terrible atmosphere of the dictatorship, Raúl Peralta would do anything to look like John Travolta’s Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. Indifferent to social reality, he watches the film time and again, endlessly practicing the choreography with other members of a strange dance troupe, sparing no means to get what he wants.

For all the jury members, the most accomplished of all 6 Cine en Construction films, depicts a fragment of life of a Tony Manero impersonator (character played by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever), extremely repulsive person, who survives the Pinochet dictature by stubbornly staying completely in the shadow of the political and social events and getting deeper and deeper in his faulty world of ilusion. Produced in the style of Dardenne brothers, the film however keeps fast tempo due to excellent editing. It may become a perfect starting point for a discussion on conformism and popular culture. The Jury

The Jury CINE EN CONSTRUCTION 2008 :

Ula Sniegowska, KINO.LAB CSW - Warszawa, Poland