Much Ado About Nothing (2016 film)

2016 film

23 January 2016 (2016-01-23) (Sundance)
1 September 2016 (2016-09-01) (Chile)

Running time

94 minutesCountryChileLanguageSpanish

Much Ado About Nothing (Spanish: Aquí no ha pasado nada) is a 2016 Chilean drama film directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

It was inspired by a real-life political scandal in Chile. In 2013, Martín Larraín, son of Senator Carlos Larraín (then-president of the right-wing party Renovación Nacional), was acquitted after killing a man in a DUI hit and run while his friends took the fall.^[2]

Plot

Vicente, who resides in Los Angeles, returns to Chile to spend his summer at his parents' beach house. He is a reckless and somewhat solitary young man. However, one of those typical nights of pursuing girls and having drinks alters his life forever; he becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run accident that results in the death of a local fisherman. "I wasn't the one driving," he insists, but his memories are muddled. He does recall being in the car and that the driver was the son of a powerful politician.

Cast

Agustín Silva as Vicente "Vicho" Maldonado
Samuel Landea as Manuel Larrea
Paulina García as Roxana
Alejandro Goic as Uncle Julio
Daniel Alcaíno as Prosecutor Yáñez
Augusto Schuster as Diego
Pilar Ronderos as Camila
Geraldine Neary as Francisca
Isabella Costa as Ana
Victoria de Gregorio as Sofía
Li Fridman as Lucía
Mariana di Girólamo as María
Luis Gnecco as Gustavo Barría

References

^ "Berlinale 2016: Panorama 2016 Complete". Berlinale. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
^ Debruge, Peter (14 February 2016). "Film Review: 'Much Ado About Nothing'". Retrieved 17 December 2016.