Summer of Flying Fish
Apr 20 - Apr 23, 2014
(Marcela Said, Chile/France, 2013, DCP, 87 min)
El verano de los peces voladores
Marcela Said's first foray into scripted narrative filmmaking after a series of award-winning documentaries focusing on Pinochet's regime sees her mining discreet (but no less politically sensitive) material: indigenous versus inherited legacies in Chile.
The Mapuche Conflict is refracted through this film drama that pits a well-off white landowner against his hired, native help. A patriarch attempts to vacation with his family in a lakeside home, immune to a history of territorial claims and the escalation of tension from ancestral neighbors who are surviving off the same land.
This impressionistic and lush drama derives subtle but considerable tension from a teenage daughter's point of view, a character who becomes increasingly sympathetic to realities beyond her bourgeois horizon.
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"a lush, lyrical study" —The Stranger
"More than a coming-of-age tale, Summer of Flying Fish is about this girl’s awakening to history." —Seattle Weekly
"an atmosphere of tension between different world views" —The Seattle Globalist