Marilú Mallet
Director · Santiago, Chile
Marilú Mallet (born in Santiago 1944) is a Chilean film essayist. She went into exile in Canada in the 1970s, as did Angelina Vasquez in Finland and Valeria Sarmiento in France. She is one of the first female Chilean filmmakers, producing much of her work in exile.
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Movie8.0DocumentaryIn this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.
Movie9.0DocumentaryTen-year-old Sébastiana recounts the history and legends and explains the local customs of Andahuaylillas, Peru, a small village located high in the Andes. Their simpler way of life has persisted for over three centuries, undisturbed by modern society's technology and materialism.