Andreas Fontana’s 2021 film Azor told the story of Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship through the lens of a ground-level functionary, observing how unremarkable bankers and bureaucrats acted as intermediaries and allowed the wheels of oppression to churn on. Set in 1976, Sergio Castro San Martin’s The Chilean attempts something similar, albeit from the point of view of actual left-wing militants. But the approaches have a few things in common, not least of which is draining the proceedings of spectacle and...
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