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Director Pablo Larrain digs beneath the poetry to offer a warm, humorous and revealing biopic of Pablo Neruda, neatly avoiding the genre's tendency to lionize its subjects.
Dec 16, 2016 · Neruda paints a vivid portrait of Chile’s Nobel prize winner, the illustrious but controversial poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderon, who collaborated on The Club, have taken a decidedly nonrealistic approach to their subject.
- On Directing An Anti-Biopic
- On The Film’S Dark Humor
- On Gael’s Mysterious Face
- On Echoing Literature’S Latin American Boom of The 1960s
- On The Film’S Unusual Editing Style
- On The Current State of Latin American Cinema
Look, Neruda was a man who was a great cook. He was an expert in food and wine. He was a man who traveled all over the world and collected all sorts of things like pieces and fabrics and objects. And he would be a diplomat. He was an expert on literature, on crime novels. He was a politician, he was the leader of the communist party—just a social i...
I remember we submitted the movie to Cannes and you have to fill a form. It goes: title of the film, then sound (Dolby or whatever), length of the film, color or whatever, and then it would go and say “genre.” And someone from my office called me and asked me “What do I put here?” I was just like, leave it blank. But you can’t submit it without fil...
His character is someone who is understanding himself by chasing Neruda. So when you work from there the chasing of Neruda, the chase itself, the going into places with the police work—it’s irrelevant. I mean, you need it, but it’s not what we’re after. That’s why he’s always late, always missing stuff. At some point you discover he has to chase hi...
Those guys had a different perspective that is very hard to understand today. They were modernists. They had different dreams and they were very serious about it. They worked their art form in order to change people’s minds and protect the social and political project. We’re talking about right after the second World War. This is like ten years bef...
What happens is that we would shoot dialogue in multiple locations and then just switch during the editing between those locations. So the space became more like a psychological part of the narrative. There is that sense, as you say, that it’s a Latin American style, a Latin American sensibility. It’s true. And it’s specially in this movie where li...
If you look back and see what’s probably the most interesting cinema made in Latin America between the 60s and the 80s, probably you’ll find people who had a lot of things in common. As I see it today, what we’re doing is very different. And it’s just people who are putting their own desires on the screen and I think that’s one of the keys. It’s ha...
Nov 14, 2016 · Pablo Larrain and his cast braved snowstorms, hypothermia — and high-fat diets — to bring the tale of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda to the big screen.
Dec 28, 2016 · Neruda knows an artist only truly dies when his name is no longer uttered, and this persecution ensures his status as a legend. Neruda was never meant to be just another biopic tracing the steps of a prodigy, but a vibrant allegory — not about a man, but about how he will be remembered.
Feb 9, 2017 · “Neruda,” Pablo Larraín’s semifantastical biopic, is a warmhearted film about a hotblooded man that is nonetheless troubled by a subtle, perceptible chill.
Apr 16, 2017 · Review: Pablo Neruda Goes on the Run in a Slippery, Postmodern Biopic. Apr 16, 2017 at 2:00 AM EDT. Gael Garcia Bernal almost steals the film as a Clouseau-like policeman on Neruda's trail....
