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The place of the otherMaite Alberdi’s new film will arrive on Netflix on October 11the platform reported.
The first fiction film by the renowned Chilean director will be shown in some cinemas in Chile in September, after its will be screened at the San Sebastian International Film Festival on September 23.
The film tells the story of Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta), a shy actuary and invisible woman in mid-20th century Chile, who observes the case of the famous writer María Carolina Geel (Francisca Lewin), accused of violently murdering her loverDuring the investigation process, Mercedes begins to question her life and identity, looking for her own space to find herself.
“In 20th century Chile, most women convicted of murder were pardoned by the courts simply because they were women; convicting them would give them visibility. The pardons always alluded to the madness of the murderersbut no one really listened to his reasons,” says Alberdi about the story behind his first feature-length fiction film.
“In The place of the other One of these cases is observed by Mercedes, a woman who was also invisible at that time, who in the midst of debates about guilt or innocence, understands that prison is relative, and freedom has to do with one’s own room. The only way to forge identity and personal and creative spaces is in the defense of the most minimala place of silence, a room of one’s own, and this is learned by inhabiting the place of the other,” adds the director.
Shot in Chile and with the script work of the writer Inés Bortagaray and Paloma Salas, the production is the Alberdi’s cinematic reinterpretation of one of the stories in the book The murderers by Alia Trabucco Zerán. The place of the other It stars national actresses Elisa Zulueta and Francisca Lewin, along with Marcial Tagle, Gabriel Urzúa and Pablo Macaya, among others.
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