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The Movie Teller (La contadora de películas, 2023) is a Lone Scherfig drama you can watch online on iFILM. In a mining town deep in Chile's Atacama Desert in the 1960s, a poor family's only weekly joy is the Sunday trip to the cinema.
When money runs short, the father can afford just one ticket, so he sends his youngest, María Margarita, on the condition that she recount the whole film to the rest of them. The girl turns out to be a born storyteller — she doesn't simply summarize a plot, she performs it, until neighbors crowd in to listen. Her gift becomes a local legend and slowly reshapes the family's fortunes. Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl head the cast.
Adapted from the novel by Chilean writer Hernán Rivera Letelier, it's a tender yet bittersweet tale about imagination set against dying mines and a gathering political storm. Scherfig, the Dane behind An Education, films it plainly, with real affection for ordinary people and for cinema itself. One for anyone who believes a good story can carry you out of any desert. Stream The Movie Teller (2023) online on iFILM.
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