Much Ado About Nothing (2016 film)

Much Ado About Nothing
Film poster
Directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Written by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Starring Agustín Silva
Paulina García
Daniel Alcaíno
Alejandro Goic
Luis Gnecco
Augusto Schuster
Release dates
  • 23 January 2016 (Sundance)
  • 1 September 2016 (Chile)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country Chile
Language Spanish

Much Ado About Nothing (Spanish: Aquí no ha pasado nada) is a 2016 Chilean drama film directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

It was inspired by a real-life political scandal in Chile. In 2013, Martín Larraín, son of Senator Carlos Larraín (then-president of the right-wing party Renovación Nacional), was acquitted after killing a man in a DUI hit and run while his friends took the fall.

Plot

Vicente, who resides in Los Angeles, returns to Chile to spend his summer at his parents' beach house. He is a reckless and somewhat solitary young man. However, one of those typical nights of pursuing girls and having drinks alters his life forever; he becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run accident that results in the death of a local fisherman. "I wasn't the one driving," he insists, but his memories are muddled. He does recall being in the car and that the driver was the son of a powerful politician.

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