These wonderfully fruity features belong to the Chilean actor Julio Jung, who stars in a fine film I've just seen, Cachimba by Silvio Caiozzi (if you can get to see anything at all by Caiozzi, I'd recommend it). Based on a novella by Chilean novelist José Donoso, it's a simple but resonant comic tale of an insignificant young bank clerk, hopelessly in love with his tubby girlfriend, who comes across an unexpected art treasure and decides he wants to try and save it. The film has about a thounsand different levels and is unlike anything else I've seen since I saw the last Caiozzi film, Coronación. I met the director briefly in San Sebastián at the time of that film, when he was being accompanied by a woman whose job is was to represent Chilean cultural interests in Spain. She was impressed by the fact that I liked Coronación, so impressed that some months later she called me and asked if I'd like to go on an expenses-paid cruise round the coast of Patagonia. Criminally, I couldn't go - and of course, although I'll never forget that I wasn't able to go on a freebie to Patagonia, I can't now remember what it was that stopped me from going. Anyway, looking for web information about Caiozzi has led me to this site, which is just the thing for any Latin American cinema buffs who don't speak Spanish.
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