‘The Meltdown’ Review: A Missing-Girl Mystery Becomes a Political Allegory as Remote as its Andean Setting

Four years ago, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight premiered Chilean actress Manuela Martelli’s superb directorial debut “Chile ’76,” which tracked with sinister precision the stirring of a complacently bourgeois housewife’s political conscience during the repressive Pinochet regime. Her follow-up, “The Meltdown,” now plays in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, but while the filmmaking is just as elegant […]

By Jessica Kiang