I write this having just about recovered from Cannes, where Camaleón [of which I am the producer] screened at the Marché du Film ahead of its Chilean première later this year. It’s no secret that Chilean film has been thriving... Read Article
Pablo Larraín’s much-anticipated feature Neruda will have its world première next month in Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors’ Fortnight. The film unravels in Chile in the late 1940s, depicting the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s political struggle... Read Article
An ocean laps the beach relentlessly like time trapped in a clock. A yellow-bricked house sits on top of the hill, looking calmly over the shore. We encounter a group of characters, both ephemeral and routine in their... Read Article
Four years after the success of No (2012), Pablo Larraín is coming back with his fifth feature – The Club (2015), which also unravels in the Chilean background. Having won several awards – among them the Silver Berlin... Read Article
Desierto’s title sequence promises much. Grandiose, panoramic photography introduces the desert as a vast lunar world in which human life seems alien, and utterly insignificant: an entirely appropriate setting for a film about illegal immigrants desperately trying to... Read Article
If the last few years have witnessed growing recognition, both critically and commercially, for the Chilean film industry, 2013 has been a year of consolidation for cinema in the narrow country, as Chile provided further justification to those... Read Article
One of the best music documentaries to have come out of Chile in recent times (and there have been a substantial number) was Sergio Castro’s Electrodomésticos: El Frio Misterio. The film tells the story of eighties Santiago band... Read Article
The representation of Latin American cinema at the Cannes Film Festival has, since the festival’s inception in 1939, been about as visible as a contact lens in the bath. In spite of the strong cinematic heritage of Brazil... Read Article
April is a big month for Latin American film with the staging of the annual Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (or BAFICI for short) from the 10th – 21st. First staged in 1999, the government-run festival... Read Article
“There was something very interesting and subversive about telling the story from the point of view of the advertising executive who created the campaign to oust Pinochet.” Oscar-nominated Pablo Larrain, talking about his latest film, NO. With his... Read Article
No, Pablo Larrain’s film about the “No” publicity campaign that helped force Pinochet out of power, has been chosen out of 71 films from around the world for the prestige of being Best Foreign Language Film at the... Read Article
For a man whose wealthy parents are both members of Chile’s right wing, Pinochet-admiring political party the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), the director Pablo Larraín’s trio of films set during military rule in the country have carried strong... Read Article
