Ana and Fernando, a young Chilean couple with children, have decided to part ways. But before they say goodbye forever, they still have to take the family trip north they had promised to their two children, ten-year-old Lucía and Manuel, who is seven. The forced cohabitation inside the car and the desolate and monotonous countryside they are driving through bring the repressed misunderstandings and momentary tensions back to the surface, albeit wordlessly. The two former lovers are observed by the detached gaze of Lucía, who is more aware than ever of the destiny awaiting her family.
Biography
film director
Dominga Sotomayor
Dominga Sotomayor (Santiago, Chile, 1985) studied directing and later founded the production company Cinestacion. She directed several awarded shorts, before debuting in feature films with De jueves a domingo (2012). She is presently developing her new project, Tarde para morir joven, in tandem with the Jerusalem International Film Lab and the Binger Filmlab.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cessna (cm, 2005), Noviembre (cm, 2007), Debajo (cm, 2007), La montaña (cm, 2008), Videojuego (cm, 2009), De jueves a domingo (2012).
Declaration
film director
“In the film, there is something contained under the inertia, a crisis that is revealed by fragments. I wanted to work on a mise-en-scène that’s conflictive by itself, closely related to the partial vision of the children and the car. I wanted to detach the story from the burden of its subject – the separation of the parents – focusing on the routine and the singularity of this weekend.”
Cast
& Credits
montaggio/film editing Danielle Fillios, Catalina Marín
scenografia/production design Estefanía Larraín
costumi/costume design Juana Díaz
musica/music Diego Fontecilla, Elisa Arteche
suono/sound Roberto Espinoza
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Santi Ahumada (Lucía), Emiliano Freifeld (Manuel), Francisco Pérez-Bannen (Fernando), Paola Giannini (Ana), Jorge Becker (Jorge), Alex Dupré (José)
produttori/producers Gregorio González, Benjamin Domenech produzione/production Forastero, Cinestacion, Circe Films coproduttore/coproducer Stienette Bosklopper
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales FIGa Films