Neruda (2. 01. 6) - IMDb. Pablo Larain's NERUDA is a prestige offering of the Chilean film industry, from the star and director of NO. It has a walk- ons by Augusto Pinochet and Pablo Picasso, contains narration with poetic citations (. Significance is writ large upon it. Rather than a conventional biography it turns out to be an imagined account of the famous poet's period as a Communist Senator in 1. Chile at the time his party was banned and of his life in hiding and escape on horseback to Argentina. The central drive of the piece is not history but an invented pursuit by philosophizing, base born police inspector barely recognizable Gael Garc. Oh no - not Javet and Valjean again! In fact they prove to be on another tack and the film becomes Bernal's quest for justification though he's told he's only a bit player in his own life the way Kirk Douglas puts down Denis Byrd in Brian de Palma's HOME MOVIES. Now if that sounds like a lowering of the tone, you'd be right. There are many imposing elements to the film - the excellent performances, the striking wide angle anamorphic photography that doesn't gel the windows to stop light swamping dim interiors, the commentary on the tensions in the Latin American scene where government authority dwindles as the pursuit moves further from the center, the examination of Party Discipline and it's defiance. These contribute a number of attention getting scenes, as with the montage of readings of the furtively mailed poems to cheering groups of workers and admirers, the waitress since she was eleven who demands of boozing Neruda whether socialist equality will mean they all become like her or like him, to have him assure her that it means everybody gets to eat in bed, his first antagonistic wife's broadcast turning into a disaster for the state, when she praises him despite having a writ against him for thousands of dollars or Bernal's scene with the transvestite entertainer. The ambivalence of Gnecco's relationships with the people sheltering him in his concealment dominates. While it's by no means a write off, this one sinks under the weight of it's pretensions. Despite the film's many excellences, it drags at a hundred plus minutes and the compared fates of the two leads, pointed by Bernal's narration from the grave, doesn't carry the revelation that the makers want it to. I preferred the Pablo Neuda of IL POSTINO. Blu-ray; DVD Coming Soon; New On Netflix; watch now. Neruda (2016) Hacksaw Ridge (2016) Want more? Signup for our newsletter to get movie and TV show news. Luis Gnecco Genres: Biography, Drama Neruda (2016) Free Online HD Movie.
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