Manuela Martelli’s expertly crafted character study grounds Chile’s political history of resistance in the tale of a bourgeois woman’s begrudging radicalization. Such a privileged inconvenience is ...

A recurring motif swirls through “Chile ’76,” a modest but absorbing debut by Manuela Martelli. The opening scene sets the stage: A prosperous homemaker named Carmen (Aline Küppenheim) is choosing the ...

Decades after his death, Alfred Hitchcock’s name is still instinctively used to describe taut political thrillers like Manuela Martelli’s feature debut, Chile ’76. Set 3 years after Augusto Pinochet ...

Manuela Martelli’s new film examines the Pinochet dictatorship through the eyes of a woman who never intended to play an active role. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

It’s beneath a specifically rich hue of pink paint that Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), a former nurse from the upper crust of Chilean society, aims to conceal any signs of unrest within her. The horrors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To title your film after a year, as actor-turned-filmmaker Manuela Martelli does, is a bold statement. For Chileans, after all, ...