A semi-autobiographical coming of age tale, set amongst the Chilean coup of 1973. nzalo (who looks strikingly like Patty from...
A semi-autobiographical coming of age tale, set amongst the Chilean coup of 1973. nzalo (who looks strikingly like Patty from 'Peanuts') is a timid, only child of a well-to-do family. His new classmate and friend is Pedro Machuca who lives in a shanytown, and is a beneficiary of the socialist teacher's programme to integrate kids from the slum into the middle class school. Though their backgrounds are politically and socially opposite, they become friends amid the growing turmoil.
"Though Wood surrounds the boys with evidence of gathering middle-class determination to keep the underclass at bay, the coup, when it hits, is as devastating in its suddenness as in its inexorability" (B. Gosden, NZ Film Fest).
"Though Wood surrounds the boys with evidence of gathering middle-class determination to keep the underclass at bay, the coup, when it hits, is as devastating in its suddenness as in its inexorability" (B. Gosden, NZ Film Fest).
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87 %38 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
91 %6,635 reviewsAudience score rating
"Richly human in focus, the drama steadily cranks up its political and emotional charge..."
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Variety
Variety"A sensitively wrought work..."
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle"An effective and unsentimental film that narrates the most painful events of modern Chilean history through the eyes of children..."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"You don't have to know Chile's bloody history to be moved by the poignant new film "Machuca," the first movie made by a Chilean about the country's 1973 military coup..."
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New York Post
New York Post"Packs a quiet wallop..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterMachuca | Details
Award winner- Winner of over 16 Film Festival Audience Awards.
- Rating
- M, contains violence & offensive language
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Chile, Spain, UK, France
