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Academy Award-nominated Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, Jackie, No, Spencer) and his longtime collaborator writer Guillermo Calderón have just released their new film El Conde (The Count).
Pablo Larrain is difficult to classify. The Chilean filmmaker is not a horror director, nor especially brooding or joyless, but themes and tones of horror often creep into his work. Several of his earlier films are set against the backdrop of the Chilean military dictatorship, often from the point of view of eccentric and relatively apolitical people — a morgue worker (Post Mortem), an obsessive John Travolta impersonator (Tony Manero), a slick ad man (No). His muses since then have included disgraced Catholic clergy (The Club) and a bloodstained Jackie Kennedy (Jackie). 2021’s Spencer dep...
Pablo Larraín’s brilliant, pitch-black Netflix take on Chile’s notorious dictator asks the question: What if Augusto Pinochet was a literal monster?
Pablo Larraín’s brilliant, pitch-black take on Chile’s notorious dictator asks the question: What if Augusto Pinochet was a literal monster?