Expecting

A Banco Estado presentation from the Ondamax Films, Mirera Escondida, Lastarria 90 and Zona Cinema production. Executive producers, Gaston Chedufau, Jose Andres Calderon. Co-producers, Felipe Braun, Juan Carlos Salfate. Directed, put together by Francisca Fuenzalida.With: Maria p la Garcia, Diego Ruiz, Claudia Hidalga, Maite Neira.A effective male lead together with an enthusiastic sense to take advantage from only one location help make "Expecting" more vital than general a view. But despite its talents, this scrappy teen abortion saga from Chilean author-director Francisca Fuenzalida provides extensive tips from the reluctant first feature, as well as the filmmaker's failure to tamp lower her characters' too-abrupt emotional changes turns what needs to be a pokey-writers into an frequently overheated melodrama. Appeal seems mostly limited to fests together with other low-key indie sanctuaries. Pic starts strong having its only outdoors scene, as sexy protag Natalia (Maria p la Garcia) buys a cache of pills in the pernicious nurse (Claudia Hidalga) in the park. Abortion remains illegal in Chile, and Natalia plans to employ a parentless evening in your house to furtively finish her first-trimester pregnancy. Boyfriend Diego (Diego Ruiz) seems to supply emotional support, as well as the two spend the comfort in the evening in your home, talking about should you undergo while using procedure, playing out their class versions and questioning their future together, until a medical emergency throws everything into chaos. "Expecting" is most effective if the stresses the quiet moments of creepingly indefinite terror because the two wait for pills to use. The naive youthful fanatics aren't entirely apparent by what they're participating in, so any minor discomforts or delays inside the pills' effect functions as tripwires of extreme anxiety -- a tense time-killing card-game scene is extremely well carried out, because regard. Yet as deftly since the film navigates these internalized sequences, the even even louder conflicts tend to be clumsily orchestrated, with a lot of storming from rooms, an ill-advised almost-sex scene plus an excessively spiky vacillation between tenderness and hostility making the central couple just a little difficult to believe. Garcia props up camera well, but frequently gives too telenovela-ant a contour to her character's rather rigid emotional arc. Ruiz can be a minor thought, however, effectively offerring a being applied sense of stress and helplessness submerged underneath his teenaged approximation of stiff-upper-lip maleness. Around the technical level, the film does well to use within its limited budget and positioning, remaining from claustrophobia or a sense of visual sameness despite happening almost entirely within the single dwelling.Camera (color), Pablo Letelier editor, Rodrigo Saquel music, Sebastian Jarpa production designer, Pamela Chamorro costume designer, Pamela Paredes appear, Jarpa connect producer, Alvaro Corvera casting, Pilar Zderich, Jimena Rivano. Examined at AFI Film Festival (Breakthrough Cinema), November. 7, 2011. Running time: 83 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com