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‘The Meltdown’ Assessment: A Lacking-Woman Thriller Turns into a Political Allegory as Distant as its Andean Setting

4 years in the past, Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight premiered Chilean actor Manuela Martelli‘s superb directorial debut “Chile ’76,” which tracked with sinister precision the stirring of a complacently bourgeois housewife’s political conscience in the course of the repressive Pinochet regime. Her follow-up, “The Meltdown,” now performs within the Un Certain Regard sidebar, however whereas the […]