Filmmaking heavyweights, A-list talent, an aural journey in Colombia’s capital, Maradona’s Hand of God… The BFI London Film Festival, which kicks off this Wednesday 6th October, is overflowing with influences from Latin America this year. Headlining the selection,... Read Article
Pablo Larraín updates our concept of the modern fiction film with Ema, a feature-length showreel of modern Valparaíso through emotive dance, social commentary and one woman’s wild determination. Ema is stylistically intrepid for a feature film. Larraín has... Read Article
After Chile received its first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2012 for Pablo Larraín’s No, it’s back at it again, with Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman in the shortlist of 5 contenders for this... Read Article
As the author of Pablo Neruda’s biography, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life and an adviser on Neruda (Pablo Larraín’s recent biographic feature film), we can safely say that Adam Feinstein is an authority on the Chilean poet. However, he’s also a major... Read Article
“We were in a dazzling and secret world of nature which at the same time was a growing menace of cold, snow and persecution.” Pablo Neruda, Nobel Lecture 1971. Few poets have captured the imagination of a continent like... Read Article
After being one of the major players in recent Academy Awards history it seems as if Latin America’s run of success is coming to end as this year only a handful of nominations hail from the continent. This... Read Article
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 latest film, Neruda, captures just over a year of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s life. Set from 1946-48 it follows a Chilean police inspector on the hunt for the famous poet after he goes into hiding... 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
Our film critic Juan Pablo Castiblanco Ricaurte picks out eight of his favourite Latin American films from 2015 (in no particular order). Some of these have already seen international releases in 2015, but others like The Club and... Read Article
