NO, directed by Pablo Larrain and starring Gael Garcia Bernal, tells the true story of how an advertising executive helped develop an innovative campaign that helped bring an end to General Pinochet’s military rule in Chile. You can read Fernando’s full review here and also take a look at James’ thoughts on the film here. Read more »
NO is the third in Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s series of films set in Chile during the Pinochet years, following on from Tony Manero and Post Mortem. This time, Gael Garcia Bernal stars as René Saavedra, an advertising executive who is hired to develop a campaign for the Chile’s 1988 national plebiscite. Chile had not […] Read more »
Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky returns to filmmaking for the first time in more than 20 years, and the results are every it as bizarre and beautiful as we coupld have hoped for. Loosely depicting his own childhood in Chile, Jodorowsky’s own son, Brontis, plays the director’s father as a strict disciplinarian enamoured by Stalin, while […] Read more »
Chilean director Nicolas Lopez teams up with Eli Roth for a sadistic horror-disaster movie hybrid that follows a group of tourists through the rubble and chaos that follows a spectacular earthquake. Read more »
Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez teams up with actor-writer-producer Eli Roth for a horror-disaster movie hybrid that sees a dispirate group of tourists and revellers battle to survive after a massive earthquake hits Chile. Roth has explored similar territory before with his Hostel films, in which he introduces audiences to a bunch of loathsome Westerners whom […] Read more »
I first became aware of Chilean director Pablo Larrain and his regular leading man Alfredo Castro from their startling 2008 collaboration, Tony Manero. I was less enamoured, but no less impressed by their follow-up, Post Mortem two years later. Larrain’s latest film sees Castro demoted to a supporting role to make way for Mexican superstar […] Read more »