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Machuca
2004 1h 56m Not Rated
Drama
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Biography
,
History
7.7
87%
91%
77%
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Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
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Directed By
Andrés Wood
Written By
Andrés Wood
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Roberto Brodsky
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Studio
Ibermedia
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Tornasol Films
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Cast of Machuca
Matías Quer
Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna
Pedro Machuca
Aline Küppenheim
María Luisa
Ernesto Malbrán
Father McEnroe
Federico Luppi
Roberto
Manuela Martelli
Silvana
Tamara Acosta
Juana
Francisco Reyes
Patricio Infante
Alejandro Trejo
Willy
María Olga Matte
Miss Gilda
Gabriela Medina
Lucy
Luis Dubó
Ismael Machuca
Andrea García-Huidobro
Isabel
Tiago Correa
Pablo
Alejandro Goic
Father Robles
Pablo Krögh
Colonel Sotomayor
Jack Arama
Parent
Francisca Imboden
Maria Luisa's Friend 2
Catherine Mazoyer
New Teacher
Juan Pablo Miranda
Soldier
Aldo Parodi
Tailor
Eduardo Burlé
Rolando Hamilton
Jorge Zepeda
Chofer de Ochagavía
María Izquierdo
(uncredited)
Hugo Vásquez
Parent 1
Alfredo Ahumada
Waiter
Mauricio Bustos
Kiosquero
Francisca Concha
Mother Robles
Lucas Edwards
Lucas Honorato
Samuel Guajardo
Bus Driver
Julio Briceño
Priest 2
Pablo Striano
Store Clerk
Daniel Alcaíno
Army Sergeant
Verónica Moraga
Maria Luisa's Friend 3
Machuca Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A fine, exciting film that makes a bloody historical event live all over again by showing it through the eyes of children on the edges of the conflict.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[The film has] an unerring eye for time and place that's counterbalanced by an overly passive, if sympathetic, central character.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
It's a sensitively wrought work that reveals a time in Chile when class differences were both ignored and emphasized, depending on your perspective.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
Thanks to a pristine eye for period detail and strong acting skills by the entire cast, there's no need for the script to press any points.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
One of those special films that broadens and deepens as it goes on.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Karen Heller
Machuca is sweet, poignant, and winningly evocative of the period, though occasionally dogged by predictable scenarios and caricatures.
New York Post
Russell Scott Smith
Grabs our hearts by lingering over details of the trio's friendship.
Film Threat
Stina Chyn
[The film] examines how this unstable social climate strains the incipient friendship between two boys.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Chilean director Andres Wood sharply observes and re-creates the era.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
An astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Like John Boorman's Hope and Glory, Machuca conflates a boy's coming-of-age with a country's social upheavals.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
Wood is content to pace his film with a methodic leisure that both suits his tone and stretches his story a bit thin.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
That rare film that merges the personal and political without sacrificing restraint or intellectual honesty.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Wood is fastidious about period set design, but not much else; rather than burning with experience, the film feels opportunistic.
Variety
David Rooney
Richly human in focus, the drama steadily cranks up its political and emotional charge, poignantly viewing its themes through the eyes of two 11-year-old boys.
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Dense and well-crafted.
Film Journal International
Matthew Smith
A visually stirring film that asks many questions about Chile's 1973 coup, without providing any easy answers.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Has moments of vivid clarity and power, mixed randomly with clunky samples of other coming-of-age films.
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