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A young girl in a mining town has a unique talent for recounting movies, changing her family's fortunes.
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María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings in a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert (Chile). The most special time of the week for this family is Sunday, when they all go to the movies to enjoy stories that let them escape their everyday lives by transporting them to other worlds. The girl’s parents soon realise that the little girl has a very special gift: an almost uncanny ability to recount movies. The girl’s extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fortunes of her family as the country is transformed forever.
"The Movie Teller (La contadora de películas) is a production with a multicultural team in front of and behind the cameras: based on the novel by Chilean author Hernán Rivera Letelier, with a screenplay by Brazilian Walter Salles along with Spaniards Isabel Coixet and Rafa Russo, and directed by Danish Lone Scherfig (An Education). The story begins in Chile, 1960, in a small village of saltpeter mines in the Atacama Desert. The only entertainment there is going to the movies, a refuge for the family of young María Margarita (Alondra Valenzuela as a child, Sara Becker as an adult). However, when the father (Spanish actor Antonio de la Torre) becomes disabled and unemployed after a mining accident, María Margarita is tasked with going to the movies, watching the films, and telling them to her mother (Argentine actress Bérénice Bejo) and her three siblings. Her talent for conveying these stories becomes the vocation to support the family when times get tough. The Movie Teller starts from an interesting premise, but it's not entirely sure if it wants to be a homage to classic cinema, a family drama, or a commentary on the society of the time, a balance that the now classic Cinema Paradiso achieves. However, it is a successful production in bringing a certain sense of nostalgia, and although the story doesn't always know where to go, it is nevertheless moving."