SFIFF 2010- - links and comments thread

[Chris Knipp]

Che Sandoval (José Manuel Sandoval): Te creís la más linda/You Think You're the Prettiest, But You're the Sluttiest (2008)--SFIFF2010

You can currently watch this flavorful and original Chilean youth film in a good quality print on YouTube with English subtitles HERE. The scenes are remarkably real and natural, the portrait of aimless youth contemporary and atmospheric. Young debutant actor Martín Castillo as the motormouthed main character, Javier, is a atural, fun to watch in action; Castillo has gone on to be in another feature and in two TV series since. Che Sandoval is an original talent: how come it took so long for him to make a second film? It was five years before he made another film, Much Better Than You/Soy mucho mejor que vos (2013), whose plot is a spinoff of a character Javier, of TE CREÍS LA MAS LINDA, meets in a bar. There is only one review of this sophomore effort (in Spanish) linked to on IMDb, but as far as I can make out it's a rave. This film had some festival exposure last year and opened in Sandoval's native Chile a month ago.