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...Raining in Santiago directed by Helvio Soto at the Orson Welles Cinema...
...event, viewing it more as the culmination of a long process of aggression against Allende's regime rather than as something that itself needs exploration. It's Raining in Santiago takes the opposite approach: starting at dawn in Valparaiso on September 11, 1973, Chilean director-writer Helvio Soto and his French cast recreate the atmosphere of that day, using flashbacks to provide the context in which the coup occurred...
...tanks and machine guns crushed any opposition U.P. supporters could raise. That summer, the largely Christian Democrat parliament had permitted the army to collect most of the arms of the civilian population, leaving the militants nothing but makeshift tools with which to resist. True to the actual history, Soto spares the audience none of the horror of a poorly-armed struggle against the tanks--he shows the militants' optimism and then their defeat, in the same unyielding detail...
...Raining is not a documentary. By portraying the personal conflicts of a few dedicated party leaders and supporters, Soto conveys the magnitude of their sacrifice, although his method unlike Renes's, does not really show why the lower classes believe so strongly in Allende. The flashbacks are often confusing (It's Raining presumes far more knowledge of Chile than Avenue), but they give a sense of what the militants were fighting for--a government whose policies were based on improving the lives of the Chilean people rather than improving relations with the west...
...electrician father managed to work on and off through the Depression, Fraser recalls hopping aboard slow-moving railroad gondolas to knock off a few chunks of coal to carry home for heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where he tried to boost membership by serving beer; at 30, he was an international representative; by 34, he had caught the eye of Reuther...