The Future

Alicia Scherson's The Future (Italy / Chile, 2013) - It makes sense that Chliean helmer Alicia Scherson would be attracted to the work of the late novelist Roberto Bolano, a former compatriot now considered one of Latin America's finest writers. Indeed, it makes more sense than her surreal, inventively lensed third feature, "The Future," a moody head-scratcher adapted from Bolano's not-yet-translated-into-English novel "Una novelita lumpen." Narrated from the future, the dreamlike drama focuses on a pair of teenage orphans in Rome mixed up in an odd plot hatched by two genially thuggish bodybuilders. Fest travel and foreign arthouse play can be expected. 2013ROTsp, 2013SUN. RATING: 6