10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

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Neruda (2017 Feature Film)

Pablo Larraín | Chili, Spain | 2016 | color | DCP | 107 min | Spanish | d.s.

Santiago, 1948. A police inspector (Gael García Bernal) is ordered by president Videla to hunt down poet and politician Pablo Neruda who has openly criticized the right-wing regime, and who has gone into hiding.
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Santiago, 1948. Police inspector Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) is ordered by president Videla to hunt down poet and politician Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) who has openly criticized the right-wing regime. For the flamboyant and brilliant poet, the persecution offers heroic potential: a chance to become a symbol of freedom and a literary legend all at the same time. He starts writing ‘Canto General’, an over fifteen thousand lines chronicle-in-poetry of Latin America. Nobody has ever written a poem that size for the people. Neruda goes into hiding but deliberately leaves traces, engaging the inspector in a game of cat and mouse.

Tragicomic and sometimes surreal film about Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda. With beautifully lit scenes the viewer imagines himself in the history of Chile.

Place: CINEMA 1

Date: 7 April 2017

Time: 18:30

Duration: 1:25

Place: CINEMA 2

Date: 8 April 2017

Time: 13:15

Duration: 1:22

Place: CINEMA 2

Date: 9 April 2017

Time: 11:45

Duration: 1:20

Year in
Festival

2017

Director

Pablo Larraín

Camera

Sergio Armstrong

Cast

Gael García Bernal
Luis Gnecco
Mercedes Morán
Diego Muñoz
Pablo Derqui
Michael Silva. Jaime Vadell

Country

Chili
Spain

Editor

Hervé Schneid

Language

Spanish

Length

107 min

Music

Federico Jusid

Producer

Juan de Dios Larraín

Production Company

AZ Films
Fabula
Funny Balloons
Setembro Cine

Production Design

Estefanía Larraín

Sales

Funny Balloons

Scenario

Guillermo Calderón

Sound Design

Miguel Hormazábal

Year of Production

2016

Website

www.funny-balloons.com

Pablo LARRAÍN (1976, Chile) studied Audio-Visual Communication at UNIACC University. He is a founding member of Fabula. In 2006 he made his debut film, Fuga. His second feature, Tony Manero, premiered in Cannes in 2008 and later won the KNF prize in Rotterdam. With his sequential films Post Mortem and No, he completed his trilogy about Chile under the Pinochet regime, and moved in a different but equally successful direction in 2015 with El Club. In 2016 he released two biographical films: Neruda, about the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and his English-language debut Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

 

Filmography

Fuga (2006), Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010), Prófugos/Fugitives (2011, TV), No (2012), El Club/The Club (2015), Neruda (2016), Jackie (2016)