Film Info
Bonsái

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Bonsái
Original Title	Bonsái
English Title	Bonsai
Director	Cristián Jiménez
Countrys
Year	2011
Format	DCP
Colour	Color
Duration	95'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Diego Noguera, Natalia Galgani, Gabriela Arancibia, Trinidad González

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Cristián Jiménez
Fotografía / Cinematography: Inti Briones
Edición / Editing: Soledad Salfate
Producción / Producer: Bruno Bettati, Nadia Turincev, Julie Gayet
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Jirafa, Rouge-International, Rizoma, Ukbar Filmes

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Synopsis

Cristián Jiménez’s second feature swings between reality and fiction, the past and the present, plants and books. Julio meets Gazmuri, a somewhat renowned writer who is looking for an assistant who would type the manuscript of his last novel. He doesn’t get the job, but instead of telling Blanca –his neighbor and lover– he decides to make her believe he did: the fiction Gazmuri supposedly wrote will actually be written by Julio himself. The story? His love affair with a Literature classmate back in Valdivia, eight years before. Crossing through both sides of the story –two women, two cities, two time periods– in a playful yet melancholic swinging with a muted sense of humor and lots of music and literary references (especially Macedonio Fernández, and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which inevitably brings back the memory of the late Raúl Ruiz) Bonsái is a new proof of contemporary Chilean cinema’s vitality and imagination.