Dominga Sotomayor : 2012
Thursday till Sunday
It all begins on a Thursday when nine-year-old Lucía and five-year-old Manuel go on vacation with their parents to the north of Chile. It all ends on a Sunday. It's the children's distant and fragmented outlook on this possible last family trip. This Chilean road movie is set entirely in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family on a four-day trip to the north of Chile. It will be their last journey as a family. We occasionally catch a glimpse of marital problems, but the crisis is largely implicit. For instance, we often only see the backs of the silent parents' heads, seen from the perspective of the children in the back seat, who only have a partial idea of what is going on. The journey that starts so cheerfully with all kinds of games in the car quickly acquires melancholy undertones. The children only want to go to the beach, while the father is heading for a new life in another apartment and the mother primarily yearns for a place which no longer exists, where everything remains the same as it was.
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