María Elena Duvauchelle
出生 : , Concepción, Chile
略歴
María Elena Duvauchelle is an actress, known for No (2012) and Peleles (2011)
The Mother
In a violent city where a man succumbs to the loneliness and delirium of his unfulfilled desires. He wishes to belong somewhere. And the only way to achieve this goal is projecting in his own mind another version of himself, a "second man", someone -who will be accepted.
Johnny's Mother
After being twenty years in in jail, Johnny now a free man, must confront a heartless society and ensure that the son he never knew does not go down the same criminal path that he once took.
Margot
Three stories with surrealistic comedy elements: A Chilean kid who speaks only in German language; a man fighting with his mind about their way of living; and an old couple trying to solve a problem in silence.
Self (archive footage)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Irma
Cousins Lenin and Jonás never had contact in 15 years. Lenin made a fortune as drug dealer. Jonás was formed as a religious pastor, but in the shadow of his father. Both join forces to form a new religious sect: the Transprofética Church.
Alicia
Documentary about internationally-renowned author Ariel Dorfman, the third generation of his family to know exile. His father's leftwing beliefs saw the family uprooted from both Argentina and the US, before settling in Chile. When Allende came to power, Ariel was a prominent member of his circle, but the bloody 1973 coup saw many of his friends and colleagues killed or disappeared and Ariel forced into exile again. Peter Raymont journeys with Ariel as he looks back on his life. (Storyville)
Silcia, the architect's wife
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
Elena
Valeria has decided to make a study about low-income women as her university thesis. The town priest recommends her as subject a hard-working woman who is said to see the future while dreaming. As Valeria goes deeper in her research, she will increasingly commit herself to the reality of Elena, confronting her with her own accommodated status, while she waits for the return of the man she loves and whose promise was to come and look for her even though she was from far away
The journey of a retired music teacher who witnesses the detention of a former student by the security agencies of dictatorship. This strong experience leads him to give up on a dream trip to Europe and to begin an intense search for the student's relatives and make them know about what has happened to him.
The death of his newborn brother will cause a child from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago to walk around the city with the lost cardboard wings that the dead baby lost after the wake, trying to return them to him with the illusion that his little brother can fly to heaven.