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MACHUCA
(Chile / Andrés Wood / 2004)
Hosted by Dr. Omar Rodriguez (Modern Languages)
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Movie Mill, 7:30 p.m.
$5 students/youth | $8 adults
Set against the social unrest that led to the 1973 military coup in Chile, two 11-year-old kids from different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds forge a friendship. One child will learn the harsh realities of the other by facing the brutality of the ideological divide plaguing the country.
Winner of the Most Popular Movie award at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival.
“It's a sensitively wrought work that reveals a time in Chile when class differences were both ignored and emphasized, depending on your perspective.”
- Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
Rated 14A - Coarse language, violence
Masks Mandatory | All University COVID-19 protocols apply
View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_XKFA1RLg
For more information: https://moviemill.com/coming-soon
Contact:
Aaron Tayler | aaron.taylor2@uleth.ca | moviemill.com/coming-soon