tue 15 nov 8:00 pm Caligari FilmBühne

NERUDA
by Pablo Larraín

Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016 107 min Spanish original version with German subtitles

Script: Guillermo Calderón, DoP: Sergio Armstrong, Editor: Hervé Schneid, Production: Fabula, AZ Films, Funny Balloons, Setembro Cine, Reborn Prods, Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Alex Zito, Ignacio Rey, Fernanda del Nido, Peter Danner, Axel Kuschevatzky, Juan Pablo García, Jeff Skoll, Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Mercedes Morán, Pablo Derqui

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning poet and politician, Pablo Neruda, provides plentiful territory for cinematic exploration. Pablo Larraín weaves an metafictional fable around the 1948 manhunt for the celebrated poet and politician, who goes underground when Chile outlaws communism and is pursued by an ambitious police inspector (Gael García Bernal) hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the famous fugitive.
"NERUDA is a story told with extraordinary style and a diverting sense of humour. It cleverly collapses the space between fact and fiction to depict the life of a figure who was both a politician and a poet. This is inventive and sophisticated story-telling, with otherworldly effects employed to depict an imagined and abstract world littered with symbolism. Reality is not so much discarded as poetically interpreted. You’ll be richly rewarded for attending to the subtleties of the obsessions and turmoils of the man." (www.filmdude.com.au)

Biography: Pablo Larraín was born in Santiago/Chile in 1976. He studied Audiovisual Communication at Santiago’s Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación (UNIACC). One of his university teachers was the famous Chilean filmmaker and author, Miguel Littín. After his studies he worked as a photographer and commercial filmmaker. In 2005, he founded the production company Fábula together with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín. One year later, his first feature film, FUGO, was released and won several prizes at international film festivals. In 2013, he was named as a member of the jury at the Venice International Film Festival.

Filmography: 2006 FUGA, 2008 TONY MANERO, 2010 POST MORTEM, 2012 NO, 2015 EL CLUB, 2016 NERUDA; JACKIE

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