In the "Love at First Sight" Department, it’s been twelve years since the Latino Film Festival introduced me to Pablo Larrain via his second feature Tony Manero, a picture I never tire of watching and championing. This year Larrain acquaints audiences with Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo), the reggaeton sensation with …
Middle-aged dental technician Armando (Alfredo Castro) desired no physical contact with the impoverished straight boys he took home until the night 17-year-old Elder (Luis Silva) beat the feathers off the chicken hawk. True to its title, writer-director Lorenzo Vigas’s use of contrasting focal lengths says more about Armando’s detached outlook …
The final installment in director Pablo Larrain’s unplanned “Pinochet era” trilogy that began with Tony Manero in 2008 and includes 2010's Post Mortem. The fate of the Chilean people rests in the hands of Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), a soda pop–selling ad exec hired to quarterback the “No” campaign. …
An instant addition to any quality top ten list of favorite Christmas movies, the latest familial Grand Guignol to hatch from the superior mind of Pablo Larrain follows Jackie in the director’s “tortured royalty” trilogy. (A capper is in the works, the subject as yet unnamed. How ‘bout Dolores Hope?) …
Writer and director Dominga Sotomayor Castollo’s near plotless autobiographical dream piece lays bare her memories of underdevelopment and the blush of first love during the downfall of dictator Augusto Pinochet. It’s 1990, and 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernández) joins her father, who — along with several other refuge-seeking families — is …