El chacotero sentimental: La película

The best chilean movie I ever saw...It has everything and for everyone. Comedy, drama, and a mixture. Three stories well produced, interesting, and funny.... Very good acts. Based on the radio program "EL CHACOTERO SENTIMENTAL". I recommend it a lot....

Maybe the best Chilean film of the year, "El chacotero..." shows us the public and private life of the common people in Chile. The mixture between drama and comedy is superb, and the acting has no low points. For me, the best story is the first; but you must see the movie and decide. The director, Cristian Galaz comes from video clips and advertisement, so the movie has this kind of treatment in some parts. I guess it would be appreciated better in TV format. Anyway is a very, very good film. In Chile was a blockbuster in theaters.

"El Chacotero Sentimental" is truly a daily radio show in Chile, in which people speaks on open air -via phone- about their sentimental and sexual life. "El Rumpy", also a real character, is this show's host, and this movie presents three self standing stories -hot ones-, linked together as if they were three phone calls in a row, which are listened and questioned by El Rumpy. These stories are most about infidelity and funny sexual issues.

It is not deepening art, but the cinematography is smooth and very surrounding. The storyboard is also very interesting. Note that all three stories are based upon real phone calls since 1995.

Although the universality of the films is very arguable, but for people who understands some about the society of such small country this film can be a blast. This is the first film --that I can remember, which talks about a subject not mixed with political issues (sex), as they used to be, and had to be after the 1973 coup. A very enjoyable experience.

As someone said above, this film is based on a very popular radio program broadcast in Chile, in which people used to phone the radio station so as to tell their affairs, sexual adventures and problems.

Therefore, the film is shown as if someone calls in and tells his/her story, but instead of listening to it we see the images. The film is divided into 3 stories. The first one is a very hilarious story about a college student who has a hot affair with a married woman. The second; on the contrary, is about a bizarre incestuous relationship that will leave your jaw dropped in astonishment. The last one is the most hilarious of the three, dealing with the space and time problems that a couple has to have sex due to the large number of people living in the house and to their money scarcity.

I believe that the third story unveils the raw reality of haves-not Chileans, whose apartments, granted by the government, are as small as a match box. Moreover, most of the times there are about fourteen people living in those apartments! So forget about the words PRIVACY and your own SPACE.