A Long Journey
(Largo viaje) Original title: Largo viaje
Drama – Chile
Production year: 1967
Movie length: 83 minutes
Director: Patricio Kaulen
Movie description:
Sample through the eyes of a young child the city of Santiago, crossing from a peripheral, central, and finally reaching the river Mapocho, home pariahs. The child comes from a very poor family. The story begins in a wake of a newborn sibling, where it is mixed with the sadness, drink and party. The child is lost and begins to walk toward the center of Santiago know where the fauna can live as human. The director never lost the vision of a child and the audience is frustrated by the weakness and strength of innocence.
According to the tradition in rural Chile, a baby who dies while being born becomes an angel and its death is celebrated. During the celebration, the child is dressed in white and given paper wings so he can go to heaven. In a Chilean town, a boy watches as his newborn brother is born and then taken to the graveyard the next day. However, he boy discovers the paper wings have been left behind. The young boy embarks on a wonderful voyage through the town, all for the salvation of an angel.
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