La contadora de películas is a book by a writer from Chile who goes by the name of Hernán Rivera Letelier. More than a novel, it is a short story: roughly 100 pages to tell about the magic surrounding movies. Very briefly, it is the engaging story of María Margarita, a little girl who lives with her invalid dad and four older brothers in a poor mining village and who helps her family’s living by going to the movies and then arranging a show to repeat the movie for a growing audience. We look at her life while the movie give rhythm to the story: her life has ups and downs, mostly downs, but the movies in her head and in her shows make her feel special, important; because she is: she has a gift, a connection with movies.
