Chilean filmmaker Marcela Said’s second feature film dives into the politics of intimacy and manipulation via a detached housewife’s forbidden affair and the hidden truths in Chile’s troubled past.
Our protagonist, the 42-year old Mariana, comes from a life of wealth and privilege. Her loveless marriage to a businessman has led to boredom and apathy, even as the couple attempt to have a baby. Seeking a cure for her restlessness, Mariana finds herself entertaining a fascination for her riding instructor, Juan, who may or may not be involved in a human rights investigation. Intrigued, Mariana decides to investigate, going to increasingly questionable lengths to get the full story, and ending up uncovering information not only on Juan but also her own family.
Antonia Zegers fearless performance as Mariana—augmented by Alfredo Castro’s brutal Juan—ignites the story with an unsettled intensity. Los Perros is a powerful meditation on the personal and the political in the ever-burning aftermath of the Pinochet regime.
Director Biography
Marcela Said was born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile. She moved to France in 1997, where she studied film at Paris-Sorbonne University, and premiered her first documentary, Valparaíso, in 1999 that earned her an Altazor Award. To date, she has produced six films.
Press
"Not only a supremely assured and intriguing sophomore feature but carving out its own oblique niche of coolly clipped bourgeois assassination at the same time." - Variety
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