'El Conde' review: Fangs for nothing, Pinochet - Los Angeles Times
Pablo Larraín's beautiful if faintly anemic horror-satire reimagines the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a world-weary 250-year-old bloodsucker.
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Pablo Larraín's beautiful if faintly anemic horror-satire reimagines the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a world-weary 250-year-old bloodsucker.
Pablo Larraín imagines Pinochet as "El Conde," a 250-year-old vampire who proves very hard to kill, even by his own hand.
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