Too Late to Die Young

I love this perfectly lovely little movie.

Too Late to Die Young's strengths lie in the expansiveness of both its portraiture and its mise en scène: while Hernández gives a moving, nuanced performance, Sofia's emotional turmoil is more affecting for being placed against those around her

For better and worse (mostly better), Too Late To Die Young is a mood movie, situated on an emotional precipice.

"Too Late to Die Young" almost has a timeless quality to it, a period unencumbered by outdated tech and dusty cultural references. But this dreamy world would not exist without the outside forces that go unmentioned.

"Too Late to Die Young" doesn't pretend to show us everything, which makes it all the more remarkable just how much it sees.

There's little plot in the traditional sense and much is purposely left unexplained. The movie feels like something culled from memory.

Its bucolic coming-of-age portrait examines adolescence, maturity and female liberties around puerile situations and is populated, for the most part, by a cast of bland characters who lack nuance. [Full review in Spanish]

A coming-of-age and slice-of-life drama set in Chile.

Visually, Castillo's hazy, nostalgic look back at this key period in the country's recent history is akin to watching events as seen through a series of washed out Polaroid pictures.

Dominga Sotomayor returns to the nostalgia of childhood and finds space, even, for reverie and convention. [Full Review in Spanish]