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En esta novela Marcela Serrano evidencia una vez más su capacidad para reconocer las características femeninas más propias y reflejarlas en historias que cautivan y conmueven. Tres primas revisitan su pasado, sus sueños, sus deseos y sus frustraciones. La muerte de Pancha, la última de las empleadas que trabajó en la casa de la tía Casilda en el Pueblo, donde compartieron su infancia, es el detonador de un viaje que las vuelve a reunir. En...
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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Icarus Films
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2019.
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"Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the democratically-elected government, but he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture, and a place on the map that he never forgot. After covering the North in Nostalgia for the Light and the South in The Pearl Button, his shots get up-close with what he calls "the vast revealing backbone of Chile's past and recent history" - IMDb
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St. Martin's Press
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1998
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This in-depth study of Chile's history, politics, and economics is written by a man who was British ambassador there from 1982-87. John Hickman witnessed first hand the economic transformation wrought by the "Chicago Boys" in the later Pinochet years and the return from military dictatorship and terror to democracy. The radical left-wing regime of Allende in 1970-3 and its violent overthrow put Chile on the world stage as never before, and its great...
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Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance. His services in other than literary fields occupied the greater part of his life, but they brought him comparatively small recognition and many disappointments. His happiest associations were literary, his pleasantest acquaintanceships those
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
12) The wolf house
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Kim Stim
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[2020]
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Maria is a young girl who hides in a mysterious abandoned house in southern Chile after escaping from a colony run by German religious fanatics. She's greeted by two pigs sheltering there, and the house begins to react to Maria's feelings, eventually transforming the animals into humans in a phantasmagoria of beauty and horror.
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Kino Lorber
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[2016]
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Documentary that masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the western Patagonian waterways and the tragic journey of Jemmy Button, who in 1830 was bought by the English navy for the price of a mother of pearl button. The film ends by discussing how Pinochet's forces used waterways to dump the bodies of disappeared persons that they had executed.
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Indiepix films
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[2018]
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Twenty-seven-year-old Cristóbal returns, camera in hand, to his native town of Chaitén, after it's been destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Searching for his childhood home, amidst ruins. He meets Ana, a strong-willed, middle-aged woman whose sick elderly mother, Maria, refuses to leave town in order to seek treatment. As events unfold, these three friends form an unlikely bond and become the lost family that Cristóbal sought to recover with his...
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Es una historia vibrante sobre una serie de acontecimientos que un sacerdote del Opus Dei e importante critico literario chileno vivio durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix nos narra sus recuerdos padeciendo una fiebre muy alta y nos hace participes de algunos sucesos historicos en los que el participo en su natal Chile y sin entender el porque sucedio asi, tambien nos hace ver su relacion con importantes figuras del ambito...
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Film Movement
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2014
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Hardworking family man Jorge is just barely making ends meet. When he gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront Kalule, only to get himself shot in the process. Sentenced to a scant 2 years in prison for the offense, Kalule, released and now intent on revenge, goes on the warpath, terrorizing Jorge's family. With his wife, son and daughter at the mercy of a thug, Jorge has no choice but to take justice into...
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Kim Stim
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[2019]
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Chile 1990, at the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, a group of adolescents living in a commune, attempt to make sense of their own burgeoning desires and tangled relationships while the adults prepare for the first New Year's Eve under the promise of democracy.
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