Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
The film is quiet and observant, almost without big gestures. The threat of the dictatorship is never in the frame but in what is left out and unsaid, and that is where the tension comes from. Aline Küppenheim carries the lead with great restraint, and the camera stays close to her.
Good for you if you like quiet, carefully observed dramas in which political fear seeps into everyday life.
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