Machuca Articles

MACHUCA (2004) Director: Andrés Wood Cast: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim, Ernesto Malbran, Tamara Acosta, Francisco Reyes Screenplay: Andrés Wood, Roberto Brodsky, and Mamoun Hassan Recommended Matías Quer, Machuca Set in Chile right before the US-backed military coup that deposed popularly elected president Salvador Allende, Machuca is a generally well-made, at times moving depiction of a difficult historical period as seen through [...]

Daniel Hendler in Daniel Burman's A Lost Embrace Of the 49 films submitted for the 2005 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, 8 are from the Americas, 2 from Africa, 12 from Asia, and 27 from Europe. This is the first time that Malaysia has submitted a film for the Oscars, The Princess of Mount Ledang / A Legendary Love. The story of the forbidden [...]