Cinema
Coronation
Coronación
Silvio Caiozzi · 2000
Synopsis
Andrés, an embittered bachelor who keeps the family accounts, lives in an old house in Santiago with his grandmother, doña Elisa Ábalos, more than ninety years old, who is gradually losing her sense of reality. Estela, a young servant from the south, is hired to look after her, and Andrés falls in love with her in spite of himself. Estela, for her part, loves Mario, a humble welder, whose brother runs shady dealings. According to Offscreen and Página 12, the film adds a friend of Andrés, Carlos, a doctor who grew rich under the dictatorship.
Context
The film adapts José Donoso's first novel and transposes it to present-day Chile, according to the magazine Offscreen. Presented in 2000 at the Montreal World Film Festival, where it received the prize for direction, it won five prizes at Huelva and was Chile's candidate for the Oscar for best foreign film; Offscreen speaks of more than a hundred thousand viewers. Página 12 judged it uneven, weighed down by the weight of its literary source.
Who it is for
More than two hours of slow family chronicle; released in English under the title Coronation, with no established French title.
Prizes and reception
Awarded for its direction in Montreal, and rewarded five times at the Spanish festival of Huelva.
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