The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
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| Altered Innocence | Release Date: December 12, 2025 |
Summary:
1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Twelve-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth.
Genre(s):
Drama
Runtime:
104 min
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The Guardian
May 11, 2026
What gives the film its distinct flavour is a slightly feverish tone and dream-like logic. In places, it’s hard to see what the magic realism adds, and the script’s ideas about gender and gaze feel underexplored. Perhaps in the end, this sense of unreality opens the door to its characters finding love in this harsh and hopeless place. A touching and moving film.
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The Film Stage
May 24, 2025
RogerEbert.com
Dec 10, 2025
Feb 4, 2026
IndieWire
Dec 11, 2025
Most of all, it’s about the depressing reality that some of us are capable of holding both of those extreme views about a person without noticing any level of contradiction. There might be no fixing such a fundamental flaw in the human condition, but “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” does an admirable enough job of dramatizing it.
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