When the parents of Bianca and Tomas suddenly die, the teenagers are left alone. The brother and sister try to carry on with their lives, made more difficult by the bright blue-green light that keeps them awake at night. Two friends persuade Bianca to work for Maciste, an old film star, as his ‘lady companion’. He is thought to have hidden a lot of cash in his villa – which could bring a better future for Tomas and Bianca.
Il futuro, surprisingly enough the first filming of a novel by Roberto Bolaño, is as much about the past as it is about the future. This is primarily expressed in the figure of Maciste (a beautiful role by Rutger Hauer, with a nod to a famous role from his own past).
Unexpressed emotions that are also tangible and an almost matter-of-fact magic realism, a soundtrack that tears and then is light, the play of light and darkness – these paradoxes in Scherson’s third feature are very cleverly forged into a whole.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Chile, Germany, Italy, Spain
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 94'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
