The Movie Teller by Hernan Rivera Letelier, Book & Film

María Margarita, a young woman who lives in a mining town in the heart of the Chilean Atacama desert in the Protected content , has had the gift of telling movies since she was a child.
When a film a new film arrives in the local village cinema, she is sent to watch it. When María returns, she tells the movie to her father, confined to a wheelchair, and to her four siblings, and soon she is telling the movie to a large and impatient public.
Through this tender story, Hernán Rivera Letelier gives us the magical tale of village cinemas in their times of splendor - and of decadence.
This book has also been made into a film.