SANTIAGO.- The film “Ilusiones Ópticas” directed by Cristián Jiménez, has begun its shooting in Valdivia and Antillanca. Valentina Vargas, Álvaro Rudolphy and Gregory Cohen, all national actors, lead the cast.
Vargas is recognized by her roles in international movies such as “The name of the Rose” (“Der Name der Rose”, 1986) and “Big Blue” (Le Grand Bleu”, 1988). Since 2002 that Valentina Vargas didn’t participate in film productions, only in TV. Even though she is part of the cast of the film “All Inclusive”, that will be released in 2008.

Jimenez’s film, that will be his first feature, begun it’s shoot last week in Valdivia and it defines itself as a “intelligent comedy, full of irony and black humor”, throughout three parallel stories that get across.

The film will also be the film debut for the actress Paola Lattus, who has an important role as a secretary. Through her character, the three stories intersect.
The script of the movie was written by its own director, Cristián Jiménez, and Alicia Scherson, the director of the awarded film “Play”.
A guard that falls in love with an elegant thief, a perfect employee that is removed form his work position into an almost nonexistent one, and a blind guy who has an operation to get back his sight, that doesn’t work at all, are the stories and characters that travel throughout the film.