Heh, He didn't know as we do. Never felt about Denver as i had before, after seeing him via film at a Pinochet garden party. Am thinking it was likely in Bradbury's doc.
FILM: A DOCUMENTARY, 'CHILE: HASTA CUANDO?'
Chile: Hasta Cuando? Directed by David Bradbury Documentary 57 minutes
By Walter Goodman
June 10, 1987
FILM: A DOCUMENTARY, 'CHILE: HASTA CUANDO?' The New York Times Archives
IN 1985, under the pretext of covering a music festival, David Bradbury, an Australian documentary maker, led a camera team to Chile to report on the state of the opposition to the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 12 years after the coup that brought him to power. Mr. Bradbury, alas, found nothing new. The scenes of the police breaking up political demonstrations with water cannons, tear gas and clubs have become only too familiar in Chile, as in much of the rest of the world. ''Chile: Hasta Cuando?'' (''Chile: Until When?'') offers a close-up view of the continuing resistance and repression in one of South America's enduring dictatorships.
It is a partisan view. The admiring attention devoted to Communist activists and critical asides about the role of United States officials and companies in support of the regime place Mr. Bradbury on the political left. However, he also lets us hear from non-Communist opponents of General Pinochet, including elements of the Roman Catholic Church, trade unionists and a spokesman for the Christian Democrats. Their peaceful efforts to wrest reforms from the Government have not gotten very far.
The division in Chile is presented along class lines. The poor, Mr. Bradbury reports, are getting poorer and more defiant: ''People have lost their fear because of their hunger.''
The most chilling interviews here are with an affluent couple, supporters of the regime. The husband, a businessman, says, ''This is a government that lets you do what you want under political rules.'' He adds, as an aside, ''The only freedom you don't have is political.'' His wife, skeptical of reports of torture by the military, asks, ''Why torture somebody when you can shoot them?'' The singer John Denver, interviewed at a cocktail party during the music festival, opines that things are getting better.
Mostly, we hear from the wives, parents and children of people who have ''disappeared''; some have been missing for years after being picked up in raids by security men or vigilantes. While Mr. Bradbury's team was in Chile, two prominent Communists were kidnapped and killed, and the documentary reaches its climax with shots of their funeral, which brought together all segments of the opposition. The authorities later admitted, under pressure, that army officers had been responsible for the murders; the punishments were light. Life in Chile goes on pretty much as it has since 1973. The question in the title remains open.
The hourlong ''Chile: Hasta Cuando?'' is accompanied at Film Forum 1 by ''Painted Landscapes of the Times,'' Helene Klodawsky's half-hour documentary on the ''journalistic paintings'' of Sue Coe. Miss Coe maintains that her ferocious drawings of skulls and skeletons and contorted figures expose the hidden ''truth'' about the world, which is essentially that the rich are beating up on the poor. She spells the President's name ''Raygun.'' Admirers of her work will probably admire the movie. Tristeza CHILE: HASTA CUANDO?, directed and produced by David Bradbury; in Spanish with English subtitles; cinematographers, David Knaus and Peter Schnall; distributed by Filmmakers Library. Running time: 57 minutes. PAINTED LANDSCAPES OF THE TIMES, directed by Helene Klodawsky; cinematographer, Judy Irola; produced by Miss Klodawsky and Liette Aubin; distributed by First Run Features. Running time: 26 minutes. At Film Forum 1, 57 Watts Street.
These films are unrated. Editors’ Picks Seeking an Upper West Side Home That the Children Want to Visit As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’ A ‘Crown Jewel of Comedy’: The Joan Rivers Card Catalog of Jokes Finds a Home Chile: Hasta Cuando? Director David Bradbury Stars Salvador Allende, Marion Campbell, John Denver, Berta Echegoyen, Juan Francisco Fresno Running Time 57 minutes Genre Documentary
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