Dias de Santiago
by Josue Mendez
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Actor: Lili Urbina, Marisela Puicon, Milagros Vidal, Pietro Sibille, Ricardo Mej?aDirector: Josue Mendez
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Dias de Santiago
Movie Review: Coming home . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Disturbing, thoughtful, and well-performed film from Peru about a young combat veteran, Santiago, who returns to his home in the city, where he struggles with the effects of PTSD and hope for a meaningful life slowly dwindles. While a group of fellow veterans plan a bank robbery, using the skills they were taught as Navy Seals, Santiago tries unsuccessfully to get some education, while driving a taxi to make ends meet.
Relationships with the women in his life are clumsy and self-conscious, partly because he has not had a chance to develop the needed social skills and partly because of the hyper-vigilance learned as a soldier that makes him mistrustful of everyone. A disabled friend commits suicide, and his dysfunctional family, fraught with episodes of domestic violence, offers no stability for him either. Meanwhile, time slowly begins to run out for him. It's a glimpse into a desperate life all to common for veterans of modern combat.
Summary of Dias de Santiago
Twenty-three year old Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime. Unofficial synopsis (from Seattle Film Festival): Think Taxi Driver in Peru. A 23-year-old war veteran returns to Lima after spending six years fighting terrorists, the Peruvian drug mafia, and a nationalist war against Ecuador. Unable to smoothly transition back home, his life starts to spin out of control.Art House & International DVD Video
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