Too Late to Die Young

Tarde Para Morir Joven
Dominga Sotomayor
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

The troubling realities of the adult world intrude on a girl’s teenage idyll in this dreamy drift through early 1990s Chile, a nostalgic and piercing portrait of a young woman—and a country—on the cusp of exhilarating and terrifying change. An NYFF56 selection. A KimStim release.

DIRECTOR
Dominga Sotomayor
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
Chile / Brazil / Argentina / Netherlands / Qatar
RUNTIME
110 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Tarde Para Morir Joven
START DATE
May 31, 2019

Ends Thursday, June 13!

The year 1990 was when Chile transitioned to democracy, but all of that seems a world away for 16-year-old Sofia, who lives far off the grid in a mountain enclave of artists and bohemians. Too Late to Die Young takes place during the hot, languorous days between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when the troubling realities of the adult world—and the elemental forces of nature—begin to intrude on her teenage idyll. Shot in dreamily diaphanous, sun-splashed images and set to period-perfect pop, the second feature from one of Latin American cinema’s most artful and distinctive voices is at once nostalgic and piercing, a portrait of a young woman—and a country—on the cusp of exhilarating and terrifying change. An NYFF56 selection. A KimStim release.

Captain Fantastic meets Lucrecia Martel in stunning tale of growing up in small moments.
Eric Kohn, IndieWire
A satisfying sensorial work, unmistakably grounded in independent South American cinema.
Jay Weissberg, Variety
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