The Movie Teller (2023)

Original title

La contadora de películas

Directed by

Lone Scherfig

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Chile, France, Spain

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

M

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In rural 1960s Chile, a young girl discovers she has a talent for describing Hollywood films to others. Her storytelling ability changes the lives of her family and their community.

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What happens

The Movie Teller (Spanish: La contadora de películas) is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Walter Salles, Rafa Russo, and Isabel Coixet based on the novel by Hernán Rivera Letelier. It stars Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre, Daniel Brühl, Sara Becker, and Alondra Valenzuela. It is a Chilean-Spanish-French international co-production, and follows a story where a girl's gift for recounting the events in Hollywood movies transforms her family's fortunes in rural 1960s Chile. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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