![]() Time passes at a gradual pace in this self-contained world, and Sotomayor’s filmmaking absorbs that ubiquitous feeling, with languid scenes of neighbors sitting around strumming guitars, smoking pot, and gazing at the vacant landscape. Her neighbor Lucas (Antar Machado) has known her for years and remains her closest friend, though passing glances suggest he hopes for something more when an older man comes through town and catches Sofía’s eyes, Lucas is obviously not pleased. ![]() She’s constantly at odds with her father (Andrés Aliaga) for hauling the family off to their rural community, and dreams of moving to the city to live with her mother. For 16-year-old Sofía (Demian Hernández), the bulk of her frustrations revolve around the drab routine she leads in the middle of nowhere. “Too Late to Die Young” takes place in 1990, as Chile was reassembling its democracy after the fall of General Augusto Pinochet, but those broader sociopolitical developments have little to do with the lives depicted here. It’s a striking reveal, at once silly and mesmerizing, setting the scene for the kind of poetic flourishes that make director Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s second feature such a stunning assemblage of small moments. ![]() ![]() As the car makes its way down the dusty road, they peer back at the path behind them, where the family dog emerges from a cloudy mist. In the opening moments of “ Too Late to Die Young,” a Chilean family crams into their car as they head off from their remote settlement to their last day of school. ![]()
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