VENEZUELA - PERU

AT MIDNIGHT AND A HALF [A la media noche y media] Director Mariana Randón and Marité Ugás

PRODUCTION CO Futuro Films, Sudaka Films PRODUCER Mariana Randón, Marité Ugás SCREENPLAY Mariana Randón and Marité Ugás CINEMATOGRAPHY Micaela Cajahuaringa EDITOR Alberto Gomez PRODUCTION DESIGN Erasmo Colon ART DIRECTION Emilio Borges MUSIC Ignacio Barreto, Trina Medina, Los Rodríguez CAST Salvador Del Solar, María Fernanda Ferro, Constanza Morales. 1999, Color, 95 min. Spanish with titles.

Is it the end of the world? As monstrous waves are predicted to engulf a seaside town, Salvador Del Solar zips through it in his beatup Ford in futile search of a way out, often with left-behind little girl Constanza Morales in tow, even as she collects "disequilibriums" and relentlessly tries to involve him in a complex game of people prediction. Meanwhile, shutterbug María Fernanda Ferro chronicles a crime of passion and builds a scale model of the town. Missed meetings, repeated visual motifs, trompe l'oeil effects proliferate in this charming "is life a game?" debut work.