Made by filmmakers who weren't even alive in 1973, these films suggest how Chile has and hasn't escaped its past. Not altogether coincidentally, I suspect, two audacious new Chilean movies are just now being released in our theaters. And in commemoration, Chile's young president, Gabriel Boric, has announced a national plan to discover the fate of those who went missing in order to give their families some sort of peace. This year marks the coup's 50th anniversary. Led by General Augusto Pinochet, the military junta governed as a dictatorship that, over the next 17 years, murdered and disappeared thousands. government, ousted Chile's democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. You see on that day in 1973, a coup d'etat, backed by the U.S. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: If you live in Chile, the date September 11 means something very different to what it does in the United States. Our critic-at-large John Powers says that both offer smart, entertaining glimpses into the legacy of the 1973 coup.
As it happens, this past weekend has seen the theatrical release of two new films by Chilean directors, Sebastian Silva's "Rotting In The Sun" and Pablo Larrain's "El Conde," which will drop on Netflix this coming Friday. Today is the 50th anniversary of the coup that replaced Chile's elected president, Salvador Allende, with a military dictatorship.
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