Caluga o Menta (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: Chile, Spain
- Producer: Gonzalo Justiniano
- Production companies: Arca, Filmocentro
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Release date: 10/19/1990
- Run time: 100 min.
Movie description
Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.
