''Take a Spin in the Air'' (
Spanish: ''Date una vuelta en el aire'') is a 2020 Chilean
surrealist fantasy comedy thriller film written and directed by
Cristián Sánchez Garfias. Starring Rodrigo González Larrondo, Cristóbal Bascuñán, Diego Madrigal, Zacarías del Río, Ana María Zabala, Camila Leppe, José Ignacio Diez and Daniel Pérez. The film was named on the shortlist for Chilean's entry for the
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the
94th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.
Synopsis
A schoolboy who is brilliant in math but loves art, a fetish businessman who collects photos of girls, and an obsessive car cleaner who writes plays as a hobby are all drawn to the mansion of a cultural center. Where they meet a woman, who seems to act as a seer, who urges them to find a hundred-year-old tree planted on an ancient indigenous ceremonial center.
Cast
* José Ignacio Diez
* Ana María Zabala
* Daniel Pérez
* Rodrigo González Larrondo
* Cristóbal Bascuñán
* Diego Madrigal
* Zacarías del Río
* Camila Leppe
Release
It had its premiere in Chilean territory on October 15, 2020, at the 27th
Valdivia International Film Festival, then it premiered in Argentine territory on March 22, 2021, at the
Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival
The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of B ...
. It released on June 29, 2021, on the VOD platforms of the Cineteca Nacional and Red de Salas along with his other film ''
The Promise of Return''. It had its European premiere on September 27, 2021, at the 30th Biarritz Amérique Latine Festival.
Accolades
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 14081052
2020 films
2020 comedy films
Surrealist films
Chilean fantasy films
Chilean comedy films
Chilean thriller films
2020s Spanish-language films
2020s fantasy comedy films
2020s comedy thriller films
2020s Chilean films