'The Movie Teller' stars Daniel Brühl, Bérénice Bejo, Sara Becker, and Alondra Valenzuela.
The Movie Teller is not a love letter to cinema like the movies about movies that precede it—it is a love letter to the community that grows from the seeds of storytelling. Based on Chilean author Hernán Rivera Letelier’s novel La Contadora de Películas, it is a sweeping, decades-spanning tale about the enduring spirit of humanity, as told by the film’s titular “Movie Teller” María Margarita.
For the small salt mining community at the heart of The Movie Teller, their local cinema becomes their most sacred space. It’s there, in the packed theater, that the community comes together every Sunday for a few hours of escapism—an experience that is still just as special today as it was in 1966.
Lone Scherfig’s direction beautifully collides with the imperfect world María lives in, and she carefully crafts each scene with her starry-eyed optimism in mind. Even the rawest, ugliest parts of María’s life become romanticized but never sensationalized. Scherfig pulls from the movies that María watches—never overtly, but subtly—to help contextualize each new tragedy that visits.
Politics and History Influence 'The Movie Teller' With the political turmoil of the rise and fall of socialist leader Salvador Allende playing out in the background of The Movie Teller, it’s fascinating to see how the film subtly explores the concept of “the compulsion to repeat,” which was one of many ideas that Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche explored.
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