The Meltdown Review – Lff 2026
The Meltdown is the second feature from Chilean director Manuela Martelli, following her debut Chile ‘76, and she similarly takes us back to a significant moment in her country’s history. It is Chile ‘92, only two years after military dictator Augusto Pinochet stepped down to make way for democracy. The film opens with grainy footage of an Antarctic iceberg being cut out and hauled onto a ship. It is to be the central feature of Chile’s exhibition at the Expo ’92 in Seville – a representation, perhaps, of the transitional state in which the country finds itself.
Young Inés (Maya O’Rourke) spends her school holidays at the hotel of a remote ski resort,
