(Hijos de la Guerra Fría). Justiniano's debut feature Children of the Cold War, the first feature to be shot in Chile since the mid-seventies, is a comic but nonetheless critical look at middle-class complicity with the dictatorship's proscribed morality. It is the story of two mid-level office workers in Santiago, Gaspar and Rebeca, who in proper accordance with melodramatic convention, meet, fall in love and get married. Their cliché-ridden world shields them from any realization of the darker implications of their society's supposed stability. Things seem almost too perfect-until Gaspar loses his job and plunges into despair. But before this crisis Justiniano has already begun to subvert his fairy-tale narrative, slowly and carefully. His lovers, both loners, appear to be rather cut off socially and influenced by the endless stream of consumer-oriented information that pours in via radio and television. At the same time, there are scattered references to happenings that are never clearly described or shown: sounds of hovering planes, the occasional appearance of a uniformed official, hints about an impending economic collapse...All these undercurrents come together when Gaspar speaks to his companion of the "Cold War" that no one sees, but is everywhere and in everything. The symbol adroitly describes the nature and rationale of the Chilean state apparatus, while connecting it to both the international context and the micropolitics of internalized repression.-Coco Fusco