THE GOOD LIFE

Winner of the Goya for the Best Foreign Film in Spanish Language, this dramatic comedy by Andrés Wood, the most international Chilean director of the 21st century, belongs in the subgenre of “crossing lives.” Following the stories of four protagonists, it presents a faithful depiction of daily toil in a large contemporary megalopolis, in the form of a hyperrealist fresco.

In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young woman who simply survives in the city, but each of them obtains something unexpected and different from what they wanted.

• Alfredo Castro