VIFF 2013 review: The Summer of Flying Fish

(Chile/France)

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      The title sounds light, but in this subtly ominous coming-of-age story, a girl comes to realize her rich family’s idyllic life of leisure on a misty hot springs ranch is deeply flawed. She’s old enough not just to see her parents’ imminent marital breakdown, but more importantly, the indigenous Mapuche’s growing intolerance of moneyed white elites on their land. Atmospherically shot, bathed in foreboding music, this one speaks little in actual words but carries lush rain forests of meaning about class, entitlement, and a new generation in Chile’s countryside.

      International Village, September 27 (4:20 p.m.) and October 2 (3:40 p.m.); Rio, October 9 (9:30 p.m.) 

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