Cinemateca 2010 presented by film streams in collaboration with unos office of latinolatin american studies series generously sponsored by sam walker and elizabeth emlen walker september 17 september 23, 2010 cinemateca 2010 machuca 2004 film notes middle class which discriminates, supports the dictatorship and prostitutes itself for the most powerful. Students with a legitimate excuse requesting a makeup assignment or extension on the completion of any homework assignment must present the excuse to their instructor no later than 2 calendar days once the emergency is over to be. There are many memorable scenes and images in machuca, a left wing film that exposes liberal democracy as merely a dainty facade for naked class rule,which is totally expendable if the interests of the ruling class are directly threatened. One of them is pedro machuca, slumraised son of the cleaning lady in gonzalo infantes liberal. Matias quer gonzalo infante, ariel mateluna pedro machuca, manuela martelli silvana, ernesto malbran father mcenroe, aline kuppenheim maria luisa infante, federico luppi roberto ochagavia, francisco reyes patricio infante, luis dubo ismael machuca, tamara acosta juana, maria olga matte miss gilda, gabriela medina lucy. Machuca personajes y espacios personaje gonzalo infante quien es. Gonzalo, the welltodo boy seated a row ahead, befriends pedro against the bullying will of his classmates.
Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Kevin biederwolf 111212 last 170 ad8 machuca social struggle the movie, machuca, directed by chilean film director, andres wood, gives viewers a strong idea of class and social conflict occurring in chile in the early 1970s. Prior to 1973 long standing tradition of respect for human rights freedom of the press honest elections. In fact, director andres wood dedicates his film to a father gerardo whelan, who served as the colleges director between 1969 and 1973, which suggests a strong biographical element to machuca. Father mcenroe, his fictional alterego, is a bear of a man with a powerful sense of justice working tirelessly to bridge the social divide even. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. Two boys observe a political coup in their native chile.
I cant tell if its a spelling mistake the writing and grammar are poor or a slang word ive never seen. Una pelicula dirigida por andres wood con ariel mateluna, manuela martelli, aline kuppenheim, francisco reyes. One of them is pedro machuca, slumraised son of the cleaning lady in gonzalo infantes liberalbourgeois home. A movie summary is simply the restatement of the plot, while a movie analysis is the personal take on movies characteristics in terms of developmental aspects, such as themes, cinematography, character deployment, and film space. The film follows the friendship of gonzalo infante, a freshfaced upperclass boy, and pedro machuca, who comes from a poor, shantytownlike area of santiago. It is true that young children will surely have a lot to learn from this film but adults can also learn a thing or two if. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of the best movies ever made only at tcm. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Brought the story down to eye level in a case of great film making on a low budget. Pedro machuca is a poor boy of tribal descent, brought into an upper class private school during chiles brief socialist era. Cinemateca 2010 presented by film streams in collaboration with unos office of latinolatin american studies series generously sponsored by sam walker and elizabeth emlen walker september 17 september 23, 2010 cinemateca 2010 machuca 2004 film notes middle class which discriminates, supports the dictatorship and. A wall of graffiti initially reads, no civil war, but during the film the no is painted over as the country drifts toward the military coup in chili on september 11, 1973. The acting from the young cast is excellent, as is the cinematography. Machu picchu is a 15thcentury inca citadel, located in the eastern cordillera of southern peru, on a 2,430metre 7,970 ft mountain ridge.
With matias quer, ariel mateluna, manuela martelli, aline kuppenheim. The international coproduction is a film within a film about a cast and crew who are in romania to make a film about serial killer, belle gunness. Film and television studies, gilmorehill halls, 9 university avenue, g12 8qq. The university of glasgow is a registered scottish charity. It is located in the cusco region, urubamba province, machupicchu district, above the sacred valley, which is 80 kilometres 50 mi northwest of cuzco. Students with a legitimate excuse requesting a makeup assignment or extension on the completion of. In this edition of the blog, we head over to 20 th century south america, where society is collapsing under the weight of violentlyopposed ideologies in the moving chilean dramahistorical. I am familiar with the verb machucar and the adjective machucado and know their.
The best thing which can be said about machuca is that it is one the those rare films which are a superb visual statement on human condition. The backdrop of the film is the last days of the allende government in chile, just before general pinochets military coup. The bourgeois boy gonzalo and the boy from the slum pedro machuca become great friends while the conflicts on the streets leads chile to the bloody and repressive military coup of general augusto pinochet on 11 september 1973 changing definitely their lives their relationship and their country. Machuca comingofage story set against the fall of the socialist allende government in chile in 1973 effectively uses a school experiment to provide a melancholy look at the failure of a. Though the film would benefit from further cuts, machuca still manages to convey the frailty of convictions and the difficulties of growing up be it a child or a nation. Machuca tells the story of a young chilean boy and his friends and family during the coup of the 1970s. Machucca e um filme chilenoespanhol dirigido por andres wood em 2004. Hes seated behind gonzalo, a welltodo boy, and the two become friends.
Introduction to foreign film mapping the world through a camera lens. View notes machuca personaje y espacios from span 021 at georgetown university. No civil war, but during the film the no is painted over as the country drifts toward the military coup in. Machuca i have been asked to translate a chat message for someone, and i understand all of it except the word machuca which appears halfway through.
Father mcenroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio catholic prep school st. Santiago, capital of chile during the marxist government of elected, highly controversial president salvador allende. The bourgeois boy gonzalo infante and the boy from the slum pedro. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as gonzalo gets adopted by pedros slum family and gang. Set in 1973 santiago during salvador allendes socialist government until shortly after general augusto pinochets military coup in 1973, the film tells the story of two pupils. Com, new yorks ultimate indie store set in chile, 1973, this is an astonishingly intimate and painful comingofage story abou.
Y tu mam tambinand your mother too cuarn, 2001 and machuca wood, 2004, two successful films that broke box office records in their respective countries, mexico and chile, are both comingof. Machuca general spanish to english translation trusted. Many translated example sentences containing spanish equivalent spanishenglish. The urubamba river flows past it, cutting through the cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical. Machuca is an eloquent and moving take on the tragedy of a society that attacks its own and successfully humanises difficult ideas of political and class loyalty. Machuca is a 2004 chilean film written and directed by andres wood.
Watch machuca 2004 online free and download machuca free online. In 1973, in santiago of chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a latinamerican country, president salvador allende, the principal of the saint patrick school, father mcenroe makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes. Machuca is an excellent film for all ages made by chilian filmmaker andres wood. The 2004 film will be shown as part of the education programme of the bfi and coincides with its inclusion as a prescribed film in the edexcel spanish a level syllabus from september 2016. The differences between the two boys grow larger as the coup ripple effects reach them. Method is a 2004 thriller film directed by duncan roy. Machuca 2004 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. There are many memorable scenes and images in machuca, a left wing film that exposes liberal democracy as merely a dainty facade for naked class rule,which is totally expendable if.