L'Enthousiasme
Synopsis
Fernando, Isabelle and their son, Miguel, settle in Arica, a frontier town in Peru. They intend setting up an "adventure tourism" business. They find Guillermo, a childhood friend, living there. He directs fake television programmes which he sells to European stations. The couple's business prospers, but carried away by his enthusiasm, Fernando joins a powerful finance group of dubious repute. He sacrifices his family, his friends and their communal utopia of an "Independent Republic." Isabel is unwilling to be hostage to this new life. She leaves Fernando and makes her own way, for a time finding refuge in the love that Guillermo has always expressed for her. Inevitably, their ties are broken, and soon all that's left of the "Independent Republic" is the drawing that Miguel preciously protects in his bedroom.
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Paraiso Production
- Foreign production companies : Trans Film, Cartel S.A.
- Film exports/foreign sales : Media Luna
- French distribution : Mondo Films
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriters : Ricardo Larrain, Jorge Goldenberg
- Editor : Danielle Fillios
- Sound Recordist : Marcos De Aguirre
- Co-producers : Claire Agnès Queva Lajoumard, Christian Lajoumard
- Production Designer : Patricio Aguilar
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : Spanish
- Coproducer countries : Chile, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Chile, France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 26/04/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.814
- Visa issue date : 14/03/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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Contemporary Chilean cinema lacks a face. It is searching for its identity, while also striving for commercial status. I feel it is very alone, having no meaningful support from the Chilean authorities and no real market to guarantee its livelihood. Utopia is an unquenchable thirst for certainty and absolutes. I think it will never disappear.
Ricardo Larrain, director (excerpt from press kit)
