"The Times" places "Tony Manero" among the ten best films at the Cannes Film Festival

SANTIAGO. -  The film “Tony Manero” has been ranked between a Woody Allen Film and a documentary on Mike Tyson one week after being shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Chilean film has gained much acclaim among a diverse range of international media, to the extent that the prestigious British newspaper “The Times” has placed it on the list of the ten best films shown so far at the festival.

“It is such a marvelously strange drama”, Wendy Ide (one of the British paper’s designated representatives who helped create the list) began her critique. “Despite being filmed on a minimum budget, the movie has a distinctive look to it:  fast cuts are used enthusiastically, some scenes are totally out of focus”, she added.

Ida assures that the film is not “an openly political commentary”, but that the “bleak, worn-out sensitivity says a lot about this specific time period in Chile”.

“The Times” highlights the excellence and quality of the South American and Middle-Eastern films that have made it to Cannes, which overwhelmingly dominate the paper’s top-ten list just days before the end of the festival.