Cinema Mentiré Presents: Young & Wild (2012)

As part of our 18th birthday celebrations, we're collaborating once again with Cinema Mentiré to bring you a Chilean coming-of-age story about a young woman who refuses to make choices that limit her pleasure.

Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. She is also a 17-year-old who finds that her raging sexual drive is difficult to reconcile with the orders of her religion. With no outlet for her desire, Daniela taps into a rampant underground network of other horny teenagers through her sexually charged blog. As she types the gospel of her life as a fornicator online, Daniela still goes to church and prays to Jesus, “Lord, see to it that Mother doesn’t type youngandwild.blogspot.com!”

Marialy Rivas masterfully directs her first feature, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival where Rivas and co-writer Camila Gutiérrez (whose life the film is based on) picked up the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. Rooted in a fearless and unforgettable performance by Alicia Rodríguez, Young & Wild is a stunning, energetic look at family and youth culture in contemporary Chile.

Original language: Spanish

Presented with English subtitles

Runtime: 96 minutes Director: Marialy Rivas

Rating: (18)

Film

Director: Marialy Rivas