Tag: alejandrofernándezalmendras

Ah, 2014. It was an interesting and conflicting year for Chilean cinema. While it was one of the years with most Chilean film on Chilean screens, it was also one of the few in which there was little to none...

Producer Guillermo del Toro brings Mexican "Day of the Dead" culture to movie screens in the animated adventure The Book of Life, which opens wide across much of Latin America on Thursday (and North America on Friday). I'm a bit...

What is that certain something that makes a film worth watching? Whatever it is, Alejandro Fernandez Almendras' Huacho (one day with a Chilean peasant family) doesn't have it. It's not the subject matter - the different subplots are deftly...