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Neruda. (film) Neruda is a 2016 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. Mixing history and fiction, the film shows the dramatic events of the suppression of Communists in Chile in 1948 and how the poet, diplomat, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda had to go on the run, eventually escaping on ...
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Nov 14, 2016 · He’s referring to Pablo Neruda, the much beloved, Nobel Prize-winning poet and left-leaning Chilean politician, who in 1948 became an enemy of the state to the virulently anticommunist regime ...
- 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...
From "Poetry", Memorial de Isla Negra (1964). Trans. Alastair Reid. Neruda's father opposed his son's interest in writing and literature, but he received encouragement from others, including the future Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral, who headed the local school. On 18 July 1917, at the age of 13, he published his first work, an essay titled "Entusiasmo y perseverancia" ("Enthusiasm and ...
May 18, 2016 · CANNES, France — The Chilean director Pablo Larraín calls “Neruda,” his latest movie, “the anti-bio.”. Part fact, part glorious fantasy, it opens in 1948, shortly before the poet Pablo ...
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Oct 12, 2016 · Pablo Larraín's Neruda brings the writer to life by interpreting his poetry through the lens of cinema. When Jackie, a biopic about Jackie Kennedy, comes out this fall, Pablo Larraín will quickly become a household name. But newcomers to Larraín's filmography will be surprised to discover that his previous films are quite different.
