Review: The moving 'Too Late to Die Young' opens a window on a lost Chilean summer
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jun 07, 2019
3 minutes
The opening shot of "Too Late to Die Young," Dominga Sotomayor's mysterious and absorbing new movie, is framed from inside a car as it gradually fills up with young passengers. In time we will get to know a few of these kids and also some of the adults we see waving goodbye through the vehicle's dirt-smudged windows.
It's a simple, unremarkable moment in a movie set to the quotidian rhythms of communal life, but it also reveals something of Sotomayor's methods. The tight, deliberate framing
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