With Closed Eyes

Cinema essayist Mansur Madavi returned to the directors chair for the first time in nine years with this meditation on growing up in a small village in Chile An elderly man Lorenzo Montalban looks back on the town where he grew up and recalls the mysteries of his youth as well as the disappointments that led him to seek his fortune elsewhere As the past travels by him he recalls buildings that fell to dust the arrest of his teachers adventures with his schoolmates watching a close friend catch pigeons and discovering a boy who lived in tunnels he dug under the earth