Most films since the start of the Covid pandemic have avoided referencing masks and lockdowns directly but Return To The End (Regresar Al Final) is based largely within it, not only looking back at its advent but into the near-future, in which the situation appears to have worsened again. Chilean director Gustavo Letelier observes it through the prism of an extended family, who we chiefly see interacting via video calls and whose lives will change irrevocably over the course of the film.
Beginning before Covid takes hold, there’s a sense of distance even during communication as we see Ximena (Francisca Reiss) and her sister Mercedes (Paula Leoncini) having a conversation over speaker phone from their respective houses. Listening in, from outside, is Ximena’s son Esteban (Mario Olivares), and this sense of him being physically external to what is going on is heightened by the lack of his mother’s direct interaction.
Beginning before Covid takes hold, there’s a sense of distance even during communication as we see Ximena (Francisca Reiss) and her sister Mercedes (Paula Leoncini) having a conversation over speaker phone from their respective houses. Listening in, from outside, is Ximena’s son Esteban (Mario Olivares), and this sense of him being physically external to what is going on is heightened by the lack of his mother’s direct interaction.
- 10/13/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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