Exclusive: Netflix is to tell the miracle story of the four children who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle via a feature doc from Oscar-winner Orlando Von Einsiedel, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Documentaries, and Grain Media.
The streamer has confirmed The Lost Children, which will air next month. The doc brings together those who were closely involved with the incredible, headline-grabbing story – the Colombian Army, Indigenous volunteer rescuers and the children’s family.
After a small plane crashed last year in the remote Amazonian jungle, killing all adults on board, the only survivors were four indigenous children aged between 11 months and 13 years old. The Mucutuy siblings were forced to rely on every survival instinct they had and somehow survived for 40 days before being rescued.
The doc has been in the works for a little while and von Einsiedel, who won an Oscar for The White Helmets and was nommed for Virunga,...
The streamer has confirmed The Lost Children, which will air next month. The doc brings together those who were closely involved with the incredible, headline-grabbing story – the Colombian Army, Indigenous volunteer rescuers and the children’s family.
After a small plane crashed last year in the remote Amazonian jungle, killing all adults on board, the only survivors were four indigenous children aged between 11 months and 13 years old. The Mucutuy siblings were forced to rely on every survival instinct they had and somehow survived for 40 days before being rescued.
The doc has been in the works for a little while and von Einsiedel, who won an Oscar for The White Helmets and was nommed for Virunga,...
- 10/17/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Guillermo Calderón, one of Latin America’s most respected screenwriters and playwrights, has come aboard to script the miracle true story from last year of four children, including a baby, who survived a plane crash and 40 days in the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued by Colombian special forces.
Calderón is known for his frequent collaborations with acclaimed filmmaker Pablo Larraín, including on well-received movies Neruda, The Club and most recently, El Conde, for which he won the Best Screenplay award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
As we previously told you, Candle Media‘s Exile Content Studios is partnering with Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell and director Gaz Alazraki (Father Of The Bride) on the as-yet untitled Spanish-language project. Alazraki’s recently formed LA and Mexico-based production outfit Maquina Vega, which he set up with former Anonymous Content exec Alisa Tager, is newly aboard as co-producer with Exile.
World media was...
Calderón is known for his frequent collaborations with acclaimed filmmaker Pablo Larraín, including on well-received movies Neruda, The Club and most recently, El Conde, for which he won the Best Screenplay award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
As we previously told you, Candle Media‘s Exile Content Studios is partnering with Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell and director Gaz Alazraki (Father Of The Bride) on the as-yet untitled Spanish-language project. Alazraki’s recently formed LA and Mexico-based production outfit Maquina Vega, which he set up with former Anonymous Content exec Alisa Tager, is newly aboard as co-producer with Exile.
World media was...
- 7/25/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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2023 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Screenplay Past Lives, from left: Teo Yoo, Greta Lee, John Magro, 2023. © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: Following its victories at the Golden Globes for best screenplay and the BAFTA for original screenplay, it appears almost inevitable that “Anatomy of a Fall” will secure the Oscar for its co-writers,...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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2023 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Screenplay Past Lives, from left: Teo Yoo, Greta Lee, John Magro, 2023. © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: Following its victories at the Golden Globes for best screenplay and the BAFTA for original screenplay, it appears almost inevitable that “Anatomy of a Fall” will secure the Oscar for its co-writers,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Death Becomes Him: Larrain Resurrects a Dictator in Bizarre Black Comedy
For his most subversive film to date (and likely the most beautiful and perverse deliberation on a dictator), Pablo Larraín returns to the subject of Augusto Pinochet, the unifying element of his breakout thematic trilogy. Strange can’t rightly describe this narrative, co-written by his regular scribe Guillermo Calderon, channeling some of the same elements from their 2015 collaboration The Club. In short, this portrait of Pinochet imagines the dictator as a 250 year old vampire, purportedly who has made a decision to die, therefore allowing his five human children to claim their rightful inheritance.…...
For his most subversive film to date (and likely the most beautiful and perverse deliberation on a dictator), Pablo Larraín returns to the subject of Augusto Pinochet, the unifying element of his breakout thematic trilogy. Strange can’t rightly describe this narrative, co-written by his regular scribe Guillermo Calderon, channeling some of the same elements from their 2015 collaboration The Club. In short, this portrait of Pinochet imagines the dictator as a 250 year old vampire, purportedly who has made a decision to die, therefore allowing his five human children to claim their rightful inheritance.…...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn't exist.
Traditionally speaking, vampire stories have boasted a unique kind of versatility that most other subgenres can only dream about. In the last decade alone, they've run the gamut of high-water marks like Taika Waititi's mockumentary "What We Do In The Shadows" and Jim Jarmusch's soulful "Only Lovers Left Alive" to epic lows such as "Dracula Untold," "Morbius," and, well, take your pick of literally any of the "Underworld" movies. 2023 alone has seen two "Dracula" adaptations debut with various degrees of success, but the last quarter of the year brings us the most distinct and boundary-pushing vampire flick, by far -- courtesy of one of the most unexpected sources imaginable.
Leave it to filmmaker Pablo Larraín and the evocative black-and-white "El Conde...
Traditionally speaking, vampire stories have boasted a unique kind of versatility that most other subgenres can only dream about. In the last decade alone, they've run the gamut of high-water marks like Taika Waititi's mockumentary "What We Do In The Shadows" and Jim Jarmusch's soulful "Only Lovers Left Alive" to epic lows such as "Dracula Untold," "Morbius," and, well, take your pick of literally any of the "Underworld" movies. 2023 alone has seen two "Dracula" adaptations debut with various degrees of success, but the last quarter of the year brings us the most distinct and boundary-pushing vampire flick, by far -- courtesy of one of the most unexpected sources imaginable.
Leave it to filmmaker Pablo Larraín and the evocative black-and-white "El Conde...
- 9/13/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
With Venice Film Festival wrapping up after quite an epic year, Damien Chazelle’s jury handed out their awards, giving the top prize to Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, led by La La Land star Emma Stone. Elsewhere, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Matteo Garrone, Priscilla‘s Cailee Spaeny, and Memory‘s Peter Sarsgaard picked up top prizes.
Check out the list below courtesy of Cineuropa.
Competition
Golden Lion for Best Film
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA)
Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Evil Does Not Exist – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
Silver Lion – Award for Best Director
Matteo Garrone – Me Captain (Italy/Belgium)
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla (USA/Italy)
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Peter Sarsgaard – Memory (Mexico/USA)
Award for Best Screenplay
Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Larraín – El conde (Chile)
Special Jury Prize
Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (Poland/France/Czech Republic/Belgium)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent
Seydou Sarr...
Check out the list below courtesy of Cineuropa.
Competition
Golden Lion for Best Film
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA)
Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Evil Does Not Exist – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
Silver Lion – Award for Best Director
Matteo Garrone – Me Captain (Italy/Belgium)
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla (USA/Italy)
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
Peter Sarsgaard – Memory (Mexico/USA)
Award for Best Screenplay
Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Larraín – El conde (Chile)
Special Jury Prize
Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (Poland/France/Czech Republic/Belgium)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent
Seydou Sarr...
- 9/9/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The winners for the 80th Venice International Film Festival are officially in, with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things taking the coveted Golden Lion as the best film at the festival. Other winners include Italian director Matteo Garrone, as well as Priscilla actress Cailee Spaeny and Memory star Peter Sarsgaard.
Here is the list of major category winners from the Venice Film Festival:
Golden Lion: Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos
Grand Jury Prize: Evil Does Not Exist by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Special Jury Prize: Green Border by Agnieszka Holland
Silver Lion: Matteo Garrone for Io capitano
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cailee Spaeny for Priscilla
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Peter Sarsgaard for Memory
Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín for El Conde
Marcello Mastroianni Award: Seydou Sarr for Io capitano
Yorgos Lanthimos has won at the Venice Film Festival before, taking home the Best Screenplay award for Alps...
Here is the list of major category winners from the Venice Film Festival:
Golden Lion: Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos
Grand Jury Prize: Evil Does Not Exist by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Special Jury Prize: Green Border by Agnieszka Holland
Silver Lion: Matteo Garrone for Io capitano
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cailee Spaeny for Priscilla
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Peter Sarsgaard for Memory
Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín for El Conde
Marcello Mastroianni Award: Seydou Sarr for Io capitano
Yorgos Lanthimos has won at the Venice Film Festival before, taking home the Best Screenplay award for Alps...
- 9/9/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
As many predicted, the 80th annual Venice Film Festival bestowed its top prize, the Golden Lion, to Yorgos Lanthimos’ rapturously received “Poor Things.” The win furthers the film’s increasing Oscar buzz, powered by a performance from star Emma Stone that could bring her a second Oscar for Best Actress. The film will open in limited release from Searchlight on Dec. 8, then slowly roll out nationwide.
However, the leading actress prize went to Cailee Spaeny for her work in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” an intimate look at Priscilla Presley’s early courtship with Elvis Presley. (The film opens in theaters on Nov. 3.) Peter Sarsgaard won leading actor honors for his turn as a dementia-afflicted widower in Michel Franco’s “Memory,” opposite Jessica Chastain.
Matteo Garrone’s immigrant drama “Me Captain” captured two major awards, including the best director prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Young Actor/Actress Award for breakout star Seydou Sarr.
However, the leading actress prize went to Cailee Spaeny for her work in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” an intimate look at Priscilla Presley’s early courtship with Elvis Presley. (The film opens in theaters on Nov. 3.) Peter Sarsgaard won leading actor honors for his turn as a dementia-afflicted widower in Michel Franco’s “Memory,” opposite Jessica Chastain.
Matteo Garrone’s immigrant drama “Me Captain” captured two major awards, including the best director prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Young Actor/Actress Award for breakout star Seydou Sarr.
- 9/9/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
The 2023 Venice Film Festival persevered despite a dimmed Hollywood presence, with much of the onscreen talent sitting this year’s Lido event out due to the strikes. There in Italy, however, were directors like Michael Mann, David Fincher, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Wes Anderson, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, and even Woody Allen to present their latest films and do the talking on behalf of their sidelined actors.
Saturday at the Sala Grande, the jury headed up by president Damien Chazelle revealed the winners of the 2023 competition awards. Jurors including Martin McDonagh, Jane Campion, and Mia Hansen-Løve saw 23 movies over the last week and a half, including Lanthimos’ raved-about “Poor Things,” Coppola’s well-liked “Priscilla,” Bertrand Bonello’s daring “The Beast,” Fincher’s assassin thriller “The Killer,” Bradley Cooper’s Oscar hopeful “Maestro,” Mann’s gripping “Ferrari,” and more.
Word on the Lido was highest for eventual Golden Lion winner “Poor Things,...
Saturday at the Sala Grande, the jury headed up by president Damien Chazelle revealed the winners of the 2023 competition awards. Jurors including Martin McDonagh, Jane Campion, and Mia Hansen-Løve saw 23 movies over the last week and a half, including Lanthimos’ raved-about “Poor Things,” Coppola’s well-liked “Priscilla,” Bertrand Bonello’s daring “The Beast,” Fincher’s assassin thriller “The Killer,” Bradley Cooper’s Oscar hopeful “Maestro,” Mann’s gripping “Ferrari,” and more.
Word on the Lido was highest for eventual Golden Lion winner “Poor Things,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Grand Jury prize goes to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’; ‘Green Border’ wins Special Jury Prize.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things has won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
Lanthimos accepted the award for the science fiction black comedy, which received rave reviews following its debut last week on the Lido.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
”Thank you very much, thank you jury, thank you the festival,” said Lanthimos, who went on to address the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the former of which prevented his cast including Emma Stone from joining him in Venice.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things has won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
Lanthimos accepted the award for the science fiction black comedy, which received rave reviews following its debut last week on the Lido.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
”Thank you very much, thank you jury, thank you the festival,” said Lanthimos, who went on to address the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the former of which prevented his cast including Emma Stone from joining him in Venice.
- 9/9/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, a fantastical feminist fable starring Emma Stone as a woman reanimated by a Frankenstein-style Victorian scientist (Willem Dafoe), has won the Golden Lion for best film at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
The Hollywood Reporter critics praised the film — which includes a potentially career-defining performance by star Emma Stone as Isabella Baxter, the woman who struggles to understand the restrictive patriarchy of the world around her, and then proceeds to dismantle it.
In his acceptance speech, Lanthimos said it took a long time to make the movie, his first since 2018 Oscar winner The Favourite, “until the world, until our industry, was ready for this film.” He singled out Stone for praise.
“Above all, this film is the central character of Isabella Baxter, this incredible creature, and she wouldn’t exist without Emma Stone, another incredible creature. This film is her, in front and behind the camera.
The Hollywood Reporter critics praised the film — which includes a potentially career-defining performance by star Emma Stone as Isabella Baxter, the woman who struggles to understand the restrictive patriarchy of the world around her, and then proceeds to dismantle it.
In his acceptance speech, Lanthimos said it took a long time to make the movie, his first since 2018 Oscar winner The Favourite, “until the world, until our industry, was ready for this film.” He singled out Stone for praise.
“Above all, this film is the central character of Isabella Baxter, this incredible creature, and she wouldn’t exist without Emma Stone, another incredible creature. This film is her, in front and behind the camera.
- 9/9/2023
- by Scott Roxborough and Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jawan, a Hindi action thriller with Bollywood royalty Shah Rukh Khan set opening day records in India that are echoing Stateside. The Yash Raj Films release grossed more than $1.36 million on Thursday at 764 locations, meaning it was the no. 2 movie across North America behind wide release The Eoqualizer 3 with Denzel Washington. It edges up to 827 screens today.
The film directed by Atlee Kumar — about a man driven by a personal vendetta to rectify the wrongs of society and keep a promise made years ago — had some Imax screens too, including NYC’s AMC Empire in Times Square.
Shah Rukh Khan has now broken his own record in India. He also starred in Pathaan, released in January, which topped the local box office for a Hindi-language film.
Indian fare, long a staple of the U.S. theaters, has been even more crucial since Covid given the reliability of audiences that stream...
The film directed by Atlee Kumar — about a man driven by a personal vendetta to rectify the wrongs of society and keep a promise made years ago — had some Imax screens too, including NYC’s AMC Empire in Times Square.
Shah Rukh Khan has now broken his own record in India. He also starred in Pathaan, released in January, which topped the local box office for a Hindi-language film.
Indian fare, long a staple of the U.S. theaters, has been even more crucial since Covid given the reliability of audiences that stream...
- 9/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Comandante.Beyond the Venice Film Festival's habitual paucity of female filmmakers, the most striking aspect of this year’s lineup was its astounding number of biopics. Granted, the genre has always been a staple of the fest, which under artistic director Alberto Barbera has effectively metastasized into a launchpad for Hollywood’s awards race. But the inclusion of so many in its eightieth edition was nonetheless remarkable. The official competition alone was home to six—among them big studio projects like Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Michael Mann’s Ferrari—to say nothing of all those slotted in the parallel sidebars, from Quentin Dupieux’s fittingly surrealist Daaaaaali! to Neo Sora’s Ryuichi Sakamoto—Opus. Beyond the industry’s flirtations with the genre for its bona fide commercial potential, what accounts for our ongoing fascination with biopics is perhaps their promises of identification and revelation: in charting the lives of extraordinary figures,...
- 9/5/2023
- MUBI
Seven takes on the hits and misses of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, from the reviewers at THR Roma, The Hollywood Reporter‘s first European-language edition, on the hottest Venice titles so far.
Dogman, by Luc Besson Caleb Landry Jones in ‘Dogman’
“A bizarre and powerful work that has the stigmata of the best Besson, the one that allows us to glimpse the force, total and invincible, behind a helpless, placid and fragile appearance. Dogman is kitschy and moving as that Caleb Landry Jones who tears you apart when he wears, in his playful and necessary disguises, the most difficult mask: himself.
“Dogman is Besson’s cinema reclaiming its space after losing it for 20 years, it is the desire to excel and excel without the excuse and fear of showing itself in all its talent. Because measure and subtraction are sometimes just an alibi.”
— Boris Sollazzo
El Conde, by...
Dogman, by Luc Besson Caleb Landry Jones in ‘Dogman’
“A bizarre and powerful work that has the stigmata of the best Besson, the one that allows us to glimpse the force, total and invincible, behind a helpless, placid and fragile appearance. Dogman is kitschy and moving as that Caleb Landry Jones who tears you apart when he wears, in his playful and necessary disguises, the most difficult mask: himself.
“Dogman is Besson’s cinema reclaiming its space after losing it for 20 years, it is the desire to excel and excel without the excuse and fear of showing itself in all its talent. Because measure and subtraction are sometimes just an alibi.”
— Boris Sollazzo
El Conde, by...
- 9/3/2023
- by Boris Sollazzo, Manuela Santacatterina, Alberto Crespi and Fabio Ferzetti
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pablo Larraín’s primary mode is deconstruction, of everything from genre to myth to ideology. But given its intensely subjective point of view, El Conde shares more in common with Spencer and Jackie than the filmmaker’s earlier investigations into Chile’s tumultuous past, Post Mortem and No. The film seeks to dispense with the historical record and imagine what happens behind closed doors. Of course, there’s one important difference here: El Conde is certainly no stickler for verisimilitude, as the Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) of this film is a morose vampire fasting from blood in order to ease himself into death.
That premise might suggest that Larraín has sympathy for the devil, but El Conde is no hagiography. The film renders Pinochet as an aging, ever-prattling child of sorts, who no longer wants to live in a Chile that has no appreciation for all his “great work,” nor...
That premise might suggest that Larraín has sympathy for the devil, but El Conde is no hagiography. The film renders Pinochet as an aging, ever-prattling child of sorts, who no longer wants to live in a Chile that has no appreciation for all his “great work,” nor...
- 8/31/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
The Augusto Pinochet regime, which ruled Chile under an oppressive thumb with unspeakable human rights violations from 1973 to 1990, following the coup d’état that ousted Socialist president Salvador Allende, has been the subject of countless screen dramas. That includes a loose trilogy by Pablo Larraín, comprised of Tony Manero, Post Mortem and No, all of which observed the dictatorship from unique angles. But even by the director’s own distinctive standards, his return to the subject is a wild leap into irreverent originality, reimagining the deposed tyrant as a 250-year-old vampire on the verge of relinquishing eternal life.
Shot in ravishingly textured, crepuscular black and white by the great Ed Lachman, the Netflix film (opening Sept. 8 in theaters before streaming from Sept. 15) is as visually intoxicating and atmospheric as it is provocative, liberally mixing political satire with dark comedy and horror while examining a grim history that seems doomed to keep repeating itself.
Shot in ravishingly textured, crepuscular black and white by the great Ed Lachman, the Netflix film (opening Sept. 8 in theaters before streaming from Sept. 15) is as visually intoxicating and atmospheric as it is provocative, liberally mixing political satire with dark comedy and horror while examining a grim history that seems doomed to keep repeating itself.
- 8/31/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Putting the blackened, flash-frozen heart of Chile’s undead past into a blender, blitzing it to a lumpen pulp and guzzling down the result with grimly comic relish, Pablo Larraín, after his Hollywood forays with “Spencer” and “Jackie,” returns to his home turf and finds it bleeding out from a mysterious two-hole puncture on its neck. “El Conde” — the Chilean director’s uncategorizably bizarre riff on vampire mythos, cronyist corruption and the more mundane horror that is a squabbling family divvying up their patriarchal inheritance while the patriarch is still around — coils itself around an inventively nasty literalization of the idea that the evil that men does lives after them. Those words, spoken over Caesar’s body in “Julius Caesar,” sparked a war that ended a republic. With his iteration, Larraín aims to do his part in delivering a republic instead, bringing his elegantly foul exercise in gallows humor to bear,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
If Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín displayed one constant over the course of a stunningly multifarious filmography since his breakout sophomore feature “Tony Manero” (2006), it’s his inquisitiveness pitched at the fault lines of politics and family. He sinks his teeth deep—so deep—into that curiosity in his luminous and pensively funny political satire “El Conde,” a fiercely original genre outing that imagines notorious Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a centuries-old vampire and inventively considers the perpetual, shape-shifting nature of evil that goes unpunished.
A long-dead dictator who’s in fact undead and still poisoning the veins of the nation while his kin pecks at his wealth like voracious vultures? What a perfectly gothic playground for Larraín, one that aptly dwells in the shadows of a nondescript stony mansion and liberally draws blood out of the director’s own greatest hits. Expect the sardonic humor of Larraín’s political period masterwork “No” here,...
A long-dead dictator who’s in fact undead and still poisoning the veins of the nation while his kin pecks at his wealth like voracious vultures? What a perfectly gothic playground for Larraín, one that aptly dwells in the shadows of a nondescript stony mansion and liberally draws blood out of the director’s own greatest hits. Expect the sardonic humor of Larraín’s political period masterwork “No” here,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
Pablo Larraín’s string of mostly 20th century biographical dramas hits a pinnacle of audacious brilliance with El Conde (The Count), a madly inspired reinvention of events embedded in the notion that longtime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet became a vampire who ultimately tires of life and wants out after living some 250 years.
After playing it relatively straight and serious in their biopics of Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pablo Neruda, the director and his shrewd and brilliant playwright collaborator Guillermo Calderón let their imaginations go wild (albeit rigorously so), and return with a sensational creation overflowing with a rush of startling notions that put this alternative look at a sinister ruling family on a top shelf all its own. Smart audiences worldwide will devour this bold, wildly irreverent take on its insidious subjects. After its festival debuts at Venice and Telluride, the film will make its Netflix home screen...
After playing it relatively straight and serious in their biopics of Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pablo Neruda, the director and his shrewd and brilliant playwright collaborator Guillermo Calderón let their imaginations go wild (albeit rigorously so), and return with a sensational creation overflowing with a rush of startling notions that put this alternative look at a sinister ruling family on a top shelf all its own. Smart audiences worldwide will devour this bold, wildly irreverent take on its insidious subjects. After its festival debuts at Venice and Telluride, the film will make its Netflix home screen...
- 8/31/2023
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Everyone knows that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006 at the age of 91, more than 30 years after he seized power from Salvador Allende in a coup d’état that was followed by censorship, torture, mass internments, and forced disappearances at the pleasure of an unelected regime that drained the country of its lifeblood for generations to come. What Pablo Larraín’s cheeky and grotesque “El Conde” (or “The Count”) presupposes is… what if he didn’t?
Directly addressing a figure whose dark shadow has fringed some of the director’s previous work, this fanged satire about the persistence of evil imagines that Pinochet is still alive and kicking. Or, more accurately: undead and loathing it. In Larraín’s conception, Pinochet is a 250-year-old vampire who first developed his lust for blood during the French Revolution, during which he so fetishized Marie Antoinette’s indifference towards the common man that...
Directly addressing a figure whose dark shadow has fringed some of the director’s previous work, this fanged satire about the persistence of evil imagines that Pinochet is still alive and kicking. Or, more accurately: undead and loathing it. In Larraín’s conception, Pinochet is a 250-year-old vampire who first developed his lust for blood during the French Revolution, during which he so fetishized Marie Antoinette’s indifference towards the common man that...
- 8/31/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Chilean filmmaker’s dark satire premieres in Venice competition.
It has been more than a decade since No, Pablo Larraín’s last feature about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the filmmaker returns to the territory with his dark satire El Conde, which receives its world premiere in Venice today (August 31).
The territory was familiar and uncharted. Whereas 2012’s No and the two earlier films in Larraín’s Pinochet trilogy – Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010) – steered clear of depicting the tyrant on screen and focused on how his violent rule (1973-1990) bled into the psyche of Chileans, El Conde is something very different.
It has been more than a decade since No, Pablo Larraín’s last feature about former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the filmmaker returns to the territory with his dark satire El Conde, which receives its world premiere in Venice today (August 31).
The territory was familiar and uncharted. Whereas 2012’s No and the two earlier films in Larraín’s Pinochet trilogy – Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010) – steered clear of depicting the tyrant on screen and focused on how his violent rule (1973-1990) bled into the psyche of Chileans, El Conde is something very different.
- 8/31/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Netflix on Tuesday unveiled its full fall slate of films, touting the release dates of awards contenders like Pain Hustlers and The Killer, among other titles.
A crime drama starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans that adapts the book by Evan Hughes, Pain Hustlers has been set to open in select theaters October 20. Directed by David Yates from Wells Tower’s script, the film will make its debut on Netflix October 27, as previously announced. Marking David Fincher’s return to the genre that put him on the map, the thriller The Killer starring Michael Fassbender will bow in select theaters October 27th, having already set its streaming premiere date of November 10th.
Among other buzzy titles coming to the platform that could factor into the awards race is Thom Zimny’s doc Sly, examining the life and career of Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone, which has been dated to hit Netflix November 3rd.
A crime drama starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans that adapts the book by Evan Hughes, Pain Hustlers has been set to open in select theaters October 20. Directed by David Yates from Wells Tower’s script, the film will make its debut on Netflix October 27, as previously announced. Marking David Fincher’s return to the genre that put him on the map, the thriller The Killer starring Michael Fassbender will bow in select theaters October 27th, having already set its streaming premiere date of November 10th.
Among other buzzy titles coming to the platform that could factor into the awards race is Thom Zimny’s doc Sly, examining the life and career of Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone, which has been dated to hit Netflix November 3rd.
- 8/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has unveiled its complete film slate for this fall, including Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” Wes Anderson’s short “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” and much more.
The fall film slate features 28 movies that will be released on the streamer beginning in September. Anderson’s short Roald Dahl adaptation will drop on Netflix Sept. 27 following its limited theatrical release on Sept. 20, while “Maestro” and “Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire” premiere in December. Other notable features include “Reptile,” “Rustin,” “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” and Sylvester Stallone’s documentary “Sly.”
Take a look at Netflix’s 2023 fall film slate below.
September Releases
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files Of The Boy Scouts Of America
Release Date: On Netflix September 6
Genre: Documentary
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Producers: Conor Fetting-Smith, Sabrina Parke, Clive Patterson
Executive Producers: Brian Knappenberger, Orlando von Einsiedel...
The fall film slate features 28 movies that will be released on the streamer beginning in September. Anderson’s short Roald Dahl adaptation will drop on Netflix Sept. 27 following its limited theatrical release on Sept. 20, while “Maestro” and “Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire” premiere in December. Other notable features include “Reptile,” “Rustin,” “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” and Sylvester Stallone’s documentary “Sly.”
Take a look at Netflix’s 2023 fall film slate below.
September Releases
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files Of The Boy Scouts Of America
Release Date: On Netflix September 6
Genre: Documentary
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Producers: Conor Fetting-Smith, Sabrina Parke, Clive Patterson
Executive Producers: Brian Knappenberger, Orlando von Einsiedel...
- 8/30/2023
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
September is always a bit of an ungainly transitionary period. With the youths back in school, it feels like summer is over and done, even though it technically doesn't end until three-quarters of the way into the month. It's the same situation with films and TV shows. Save for the occasional sleeper hit, most of the titles that arrive in September are stragglers with nowhere else to go. Meanwhile, the studios start gearing up for the annual awards season by bringing their best and brightest to the ritzy international film festivals in Toronto and Venice. Of course, with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers having failed to negotiate an acceptable contract with both the striking writers' and actors' guilds at the time of writing, it's anyone's guess how this fall is even going to go right now. So, in the meantime, let's look at the new films and...
- 8/25/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Just over a year has passed since we heard that Pablo Larraín, director of the films Jackie, Ema, and Spencer, as well as the Stephen King mini-series Lisey’s Story, was in production on El Conde, which depicts real-world dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire. Now a trailer for El Conde has arrived online, revealing that the film is scheduled to be released through the Netflix streaming service on September 15th. The trailer can be seen in the embed above.
Scripted by Larraín and his frequent collaborator Guillermo Calderón, El Conde is a horror dark comedy that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent, feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life,...
Scripted by Larraín and his frequent collaborator Guillermo Calderón, El Conde is a horror dark comedy that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent, feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
As you may recall, a mysterious Netflix movie titled The Count had been rated “R” earlier this year for “strong violence and gore” and “graphic nudity,” and we now know the project is from director Pablo Larraín (Spencer), officially titled El Conde and coming soon to Netflix.
El Conde will premiere on Netflix on September 15, 2023. Watch the trailer below for a taste of the black & white vampire movie, which looks like a highly unique new take on the genre.
“El Conde is a dark comedy/horror that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent.
“Feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life, Pinochet has decided to stop drinking blood...
El Conde will premiere on Netflix on September 15, 2023. Watch the trailer below for a taste of the black & white vampire movie, which looks like a highly unique new take on the genre.
“El Conde is a dark comedy/horror that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent.
“Feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life, Pinochet has decided to stop drinking blood...
- 8/10/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
On September 11, 1973, Chilean military commander Agosto Pinochet orchestrated a coup and seized power over President Salvador Allende. Nearly 50 years later, the undead vampire Pinochet has absconded to the countryside, having faked his death after the end of his regime.
It didn’t quite happen that way, but it’s the fantastic twist of director Pablo Larraín’s gothic satire “El Conde” (“The Count”), the filmmaker’s latest and most ambitious response to the lingering trauma of the Pinochet years. A black-and-white blend of atmospheric silent-era horror and dark humor, the movie confronts the impact of the Pinochet years by transforming the man into a literal bloodsucker who drained the life out of his country.
The Netflix production, which premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival later this month, adds a provocative new angle to Chile’s relationship with its former ruler. The scope of that history is so vast...
It didn’t quite happen that way, but it’s the fantastic twist of director Pablo Larraín’s gothic satire “El Conde” (“The Count”), the filmmaker’s latest and most ambitious response to the lingering trauma of the Pinochet years. A black-and-white blend of atmospheric silent-era horror and dark humor, the movie confronts the impact of the Pinochet years by transforming the man into a literal bloodsucker who drained the life out of his country.
The Netflix production, which premieres in competition at the Venice Film Festival later this month, adds a provocative new angle to Chile’s relationship with its former ruler. The scope of that history is so vast...
- 8/10/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It is not often that we come across a decent film on friendships sans drama coming out of Mexico. This Latino industry worldwide is known for its telenovela style of storytelling and filmmaking, which turns over the top and preposterous in no time. Thankfully, Maquíllame Otra Vez, loosely translated to Making it Up, is a Mexican movie written and directed by Guillermo Calderón that is broadly about female friendships, sisterhood, and how just a simple act of love and caring is what matters, and there need not be a spectacle to showcase that.
The plot of this one-hour, forty-minute film is simple. There is a small group of very talented makeup artists who are out of work and are desperately looking for a job. They come across another friend who seems to have contacts, but she is battling her demons and is trying very hard to overcome it. Maneuvering between odd jobs,...
The plot of this one-hour, forty-minute film is simple. There is a small group of very talented makeup artists who are out of work and are desperately looking for a job. They come across another friend who seems to have contacts, but she is battling her demons and is trying very hard to overcome it. Maneuvering between odd jobs,...
- 7/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Three years after it unveiled a 20 million venture capital fund aimed at bolstering film and TV series, Chile-based Screen Capital has introduced a second investment fund, Screen II, which will support projects in the digital entertainment arena: Video games, Virtual Reality, Ott platforms, Extended Reality (Xr), apps etc.
Screen Capital is co-founded by former Chile Film Commissioner Joyce Zylberberg and Tatiana Emden, who once headed Chile’s Development Fund, and has among its key partners, Edgar Spielmann, ex-vp and COO of Fox Networks Group Latin America.
The Screen II investment fund is backed by a mix of public and private sector investors, the latter led by Mexican producer Alex Garcia of Ag Studios, who has invested in a slew of film, TV, music and tech projects in the past years.
“It was a natural step for me given all that I have worked on in the past,” he told Variety.
Screen Capital is co-founded by former Chile Film Commissioner Joyce Zylberberg and Tatiana Emden, who once headed Chile’s Development Fund, and has among its key partners, Edgar Spielmann, ex-vp and COO of Fox Networks Group Latin America.
The Screen II investment fund is backed by a mix of public and private sector investors, the latter led by Mexican producer Alex Garcia of Ag Studios, who has invested in a slew of film, TV, music and tech projects in the past years.
“It was a natural step for me given all that I have worked on in the past,” he told Variety.
- 1/24/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
El Conde
An endless source for film narratives including several in his own filmography, Pablo Larraín decides to reimagine (and do some dentistry) to Pinochet in what is being pitched as a comedy noir. Production began in June of last year with the likes of Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger toplining a film where the Chilean dictator is a 250-year-old vampire. El Conde got picked up by the Netflix folks early. This is obviously produced by Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín.
Gist: . co-writer Guillermo Calderón revolves around Augusto Pinochet who is not dead but an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.…...
An endless source for film narratives including several in his own filmography, Pablo Larraín decides to reimagine (and do some dentistry) to Pinochet in what is being pitched as a comedy noir. Production began in June of last year with the likes of Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger toplining a film where the Chilean dictator is a 250-year-old vampire. El Conde got picked up by the Netflix folks early. This is obviously produced by Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín.
Gist: . co-writer Guillermo Calderón revolves around Augusto Pinochet who is not dead but an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.…...
- 1/18/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Continuing his trend of bouncing back and forth between English-language projects and Chilean features, Pablo Larraín is following Spencer with El Conde, backed by Netflix.
Scripted by the director alongside Guillermo Calderón, the story revolves around Augusto Pinochet who is not dead but an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.
Jaime Vadell and Gloria Münchmeyer will play the central couple in this historical dark comedy, in addition to actors Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger.
“We are very happy because Netflix is a place where directors whom I greatly admire have made really valuable movies,” the director said. “Using dark comedy we want to observe, understand and analyze the events that have occurred in Chile and the world in the last 50 years. We have total confidence that we’ll do...
Scripted by the director alongside Guillermo Calderón, the story revolves around Augusto Pinochet who is not dead but an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.
Jaime Vadell and Gloria Münchmeyer will play the central couple in this historical dark comedy, in addition to actors Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger.
“We are very happy because Netflix is a place where directors whom I greatly admire have made really valuable movies,” the director said. “Using dark comedy we want to observe, understand and analyze the events that have occurred in Chile and the world in the last 50 years. We have total confidence that we’ll do...
- 6/24/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Spencer” director Pablo Larraín has teamed with Netflix for his next film “El Conde,” a fantastical dark comedy revolving around Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Production on the film is underway.
Larraín will direct “El Conde” and also co-wrote the script with his regular writing partner Guillermo Calderón, with whom he has already worked on “The Club” and “Neruda.” Juan de Dios Larraín is producing.
The story revolves around Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but is an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.
Jaime Vadell and Gloria Münchmeyer will play the central couple in this historical dark comedy, in addition to actors Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger.
Netflix will release “El Conde” in 2023.
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Larraín will direct “El Conde” and also co-wrote the script with his regular writing partner Guillermo Calderón, with whom he has already worked on “The Club” and “Neruda.” Juan de Dios Larraín is producing.
The story revolves around Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but is an aged vampire who, after 250 years in this world, has decided to die once and for all, due to ailments brought about by his dishonor and family conflicts.
Jaime Vadell and Gloria Münchmeyer will play the central couple in this historical dark comedy, in addition to actors Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger.
Netflix will release “El Conde” in 2023.
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“We...
- 6/24/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Netflix today announced the start of production of El Conde, a Chilean movie directed by Pablo Larraín (Spencer), who also shares screenplay credits with regular partner Guillermo Calderón, and which will be produced by Juan de Dios Larraín. The story revolves around Augusto Pinochet who is not dead but an aged vampire who, after 250 […]
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- 6/24/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Netflix and ‘Spencer’ director Pablo Larraín have gone into production on “El Conde,” a black comedy picturing bloody Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire.
Larraín will share screenwriting credits with Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost playwright and Larraín’s writing partner on “Neruda” and Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” the movie which persuaded Natalie Portman to play the lead in the Larraín-directed “Jackie.”
“El Conde” is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Larraín brothers’ Chile-based film-tv production house whose credits include “Spencer” and “Jackie,” all Larrain’s Chilean movies, and Sebastian Lelio’s 2018 Academy Award winning “A Fantastic Woman.”
Moving from fest-winning straight-arrow arthouse fare such as “Tony Manero” to movies with a wider audience appeal from 2012 Cannes Directors Fortnight winner “No,” starring Gael García Bernal and then into English-language titles from “Jackie,” Pablo Larrain has established himself in the vanguard of Latin American cinema.
Larraín will share screenwriting credits with Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost playwright and Larraín’s writing partner on “Neruda” and Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” the movie which persuaded Natalie Portman to play the lead in the Larraín-directed “Jackie.”
“El Conde” is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Larraín brothers’ Chile-based film-tv production house whose credits include “Spencer” and “Jackie,” all Larrain’s Chilean movies, and Sebastian Lelio’s 2018 Academy Award winning “A Fantastic Woman.”
Moving from fest-winning straight-arrow arthouse fare such as “Tony Manero” to movies with a wider audience appeal from 2012 Cannes Directors Fortnight winner “No,” starring Gael García Bernal and then into English-language titles from “Jackie,” Pablo Larrain has established himself in the vanguard of Latin American cinema.
- 6/24/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Film
Netflix is teaming with the Larraín brothers’ indie production outfit Fabula to produce its second Chilean original, a feature-length adaptation of Antonio Skármeta’s “Burning Patience,” sometimes referred to as “The Postman,” adapted by one of Chile’s highest-profile screenwriters in Guillermo Calderón and helmed by “Sex With Love” director Boris Quercia. According to Fabula, a wide casting call will be announced soon, with shooting set for next year.
The book tells the fictional story of Mario, a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. To that end, the young man gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer, poet and diplomat moves there after being exiled from Chile. The Netflix adaptation has big shoes to fil. In 1996, Michael Radford’s adaptation of the story was nominated for five Academy Awards including best picture, best actor (Massimo Troisi), best director and best adapted screenplay,...
Netflix is teaming with the Larraín brothers’ indie production outfit Fabula to produce its second Chilean original, a feature-length adaptation of Antonio Skármeta’s “Burning Patience,” sometimes referred to as “The Postman,” adapted by one of Chile’s highest-profile screenwriters in Guillermo Calderón and helmed by “Sex With Love” director Boris Quercia. According to Fabula, a wide casting call will be announced soon, with shooting set for next year.
The book tells the fictional story of Mario, a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. To that end, the young man gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer, poet and diplomat moves there after being exiled from Chile. The Netflix adaptation has big shoes to fil. In 1996, Michael Radford’s adaptation of the story was nominated for five Academy Awards including best picture, best actor (Massimo Troisi), best director and best adapted screenplay,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on the new Pablo Larrain film “Ema,” a Chilean Film distributed in the U.S. by Music Box Films of Chicago. In select theaters, including the Music Box Theatre. beginning August 13th, 2021.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The director of 2016’s Jaqueline Kennedy bio Jackie, Pablo Larrain, follows up with “Ema,” featuring Mariana Di Girolamo as the title character, a dancer married to choreographer Gaston (Gael Garcia Bernal), but their marriage is haunted by a failed adoption. Their union begins also to fail, and it affects the pair’s professional dance partnership. In the meantime, Ema bursts out into a new rhythm of life, bringing in old and new relationships into her web, to figure out what is next.
“Ema” is in select theaters (see local listings) beginning on August 13th. Featuring Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini and Giannina Fruttero.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The director of 2016’s Jaqueline Kennedy bio Jackie, Pablo Larrain, follows up with “Ema,” featuring Mariana Di Girolamo as the title character, a dancer married to choreographer Gaston (Gael Garcia Bernal), but their marriage is haunted by a failed adoption. Their union begins also to fail, and it affects the pair’s professional dance partnership. In the meantime, Ema bursts out into a new rhythm of life, bringing in old and new relationships into her web, to figure out what is next.
“Ema” is in select theaters (see local listings) beginning on August 13th. Featuring Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini and Giannina Fruttero.
- 8/15/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Fabula, the Chile-based film and TV production house of Pablo and Juan de Diós Larrain, is set to produce “Maquíllame Otra Vez,” the first feature film to go into production at Fabula Mexico, launched to complement Fabula’s Santiago de Chile H.Q. and Fabula U.S., run out of Los Angeles.
Slated to go into production from October in Mexico City, “Maquíllame Otra Vez” also marks the directorial debut of Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost living playwright as well as screenwriter of films – Pablo Larrain’s “Neruda” and “The Club,” and Andrés Wood’s “Violeta Went to Heaven,” for example – that have helped propel Chile into the vanguard of Latin American cinema.
“A comedy for our times,” Calderón told Variety, “Maquíllame Otra Vez” will star three Mexican actors who are at the forefront of their generation: Ilse Salas, the female lead of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “Güeros” and Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls”; Paulina Gaitán,...
Slated to go into production from October in Mexico City, “Maquíllame Otra Vez” also marks the directorial debut of Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost living playwright as well as screenwriter of films – Pablo Larrain’s “Neruda” and “The Club,” and Andrés Wood’s “Violeta Went to Heaven,” for example – that have helped propel Chile into the vanguard of Latin American cinema.
“A comedy for our times,” Calderón told Variety, “Maquíllame Otra Vez” will star three Mexican actors who are at the forefront of their generation: Ilse Salas, the female lead of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “Güeros” and Alejandra Márquez’s “The Good Girls”; Paulina Gaitán,...
- 6/1/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Before the title card in Pablo Larrain's film Ema is a following shot of the platinum-blonde title character walking down the middle of an empty road lit by neon and fire. It is perhaps the only truly familiar authorial element in Larrain's latest feature. Ema marks Larrain's return to his homeland of Chile after a successful Hollywood debut in Jackie, and he also returns, for the first time since Tony Manero, to apolitical subject matter. There are no coups, riots, or assassinations in Ema; nobody even dies. Instead, a dancer couple (Mariana Di Girolamo as Ema and Gael Garcia Bernal as Gastón) spars after Ema returns their son to foster care after he immolates a family member, trying alternately to destroy and repair the atypical family. The film was co-written by playwright Guillermo Calderón, the scribe behind Neruda and The Club, and like those, it has the hallmarks of a...
- 2/3/2020
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- firstshowing.net
Dancer drama premiered at Venice this year.
Streaming service and theatrical distributor Mubi has taken UK and Ireland rights to Ema, Pablo Larraín’s dancer drama that premiered at Venice earlier this month. The Match Factory is handling international rights to the film.
The film stars Gael García Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo and centres on the eponymous Ema, a talented dancer who rethinks her life after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
It was written by Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno and Larraín and produced by Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín. Paola Giannini...
Streaming service and theatrical distributor Mubi has taken UK and Ireland rights to Ema, Pablo Larraín’s dancer drama that premiered at Venice earlier this month. The Match Factory is handling international rights to the film.
The film stars Gael García Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo and centres on the eponymous Ema, a talented dancer who rethinks her life after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
It was written by Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno and Larraín and produced by Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín. Paola Giannini...
- 9/27/2019
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Movies have been named after far less interesting forces than the protagonist of Ema. Played with unblinking gravitas by the Chilean television actress Mariana Di Girólamo (a remarkable find), Ema is a contemporary dancer who stalks the neon lit streets of the Chilean port city of Valparaíso in track bottoms, cropped leopard-print tops, and slicked back peroxide blonde hair. She also has a propensity for arson. In the film she leaves her partner Gaston–who is the choreographer of her dance troupe (and also maybe gay)–in order to dance to Reggaeton hits on a rundown tarmac football pitch. The film is utterly infatuated with her.
Ema was directed by Pablo Larraín, one of the finest filmmakers to emerge in this young century. The son of wealthy conservatives, his work to date has tended towards leftist politics. Ema is Larraín at his most freeform, an unorthodox feature built around Di Girólamo that is,...
Ema was directed by Pablo Larraín, one of the finest filmmakers to emerge in this young century. The son of wealthy conservatives, his work to date has tended towards leftist politics. Ema is Larraín at his most freeform, an unorthodox feature built around Di Girólamo that is,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín never does the same thing twice, upending seemingly staid narrative concepts into fresh explorations of both humanity and cinema. His latest, “Ema,” seems poised to do the same thing, taking another well-trod idea (“a husband and wife deal with a family tragedy in very different ways”) and turning it into something very different (read: a dance film).
The new film reunites Larraín with his frequent collaborator Gael García Bernal, who previously worked with Larraín on “No” and “Neruda,” opposite Chilean actress Mariana Di Girolamo as the title character. The duo star as a married couple, he a choreographer and she a dancer, dealing with the fallout of a horrific incident perpetrated by their young adopted son. For Ema, that includes returning to her street dancing roots, though the trailer hints at a deeper meaning that goes beyond her need to physically express herself.
Last August, Larraín...
The new film reunites Larraín with his frequent collaborator Gael García Bernal, who previously worked with Larraín on “No” and “Neruda,” opposite Chilean actress Mariana Di Girolamo as the title character. The duo star as a married couple, he a choreographer and she a dancer, dealing with the fallout of a horrific incident perpetrated by their young adopted son. For Ema, that includes returning to her street dancing roots, though the trailer hints at a deeper meaning that goes beyond her need to physically express herself.
Last August, Larraín...
- 8/29/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Film will play in Competition on the Lido before heading to Toronto.
Ahead of its premiere in Competition at Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín’s hotly anticipated dance drama Ema has been boarded by Colonge-based sales outfit The Match Factory.
Gael García Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo lead the cast of the film, which follows the titular Ema, a talented dancer who sets out on a quest to reset her life after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
The film was written by Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno and Pablo Larraín and produced Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín.
Ahead of its premiere in Competition at Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín’s hotly anticipated dance drama Ema has been boarded by Colonge-based sales outfit The Match Factory.
Gael García Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo lead the cast of the film, which follows the titular Ema, a talented dancer who sets out on a quest to reset her life after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
The film was written by Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno and Pablo Larraín and produced Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín.
- 8/1/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Buenos Aires — Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has boarded “Araña,” directed by one of Chile’s foremost filmmakers, Andrés Wood, and distributed in North and Latin America by 20th Century Fox.
Produced by Alejandra García at Santiago de Chile’s Wood Producciones, “Araña” is co-produced by Brazil’s BossaNovaFilms and Argentina’s Magma Cine, two of Southern America’s most ambitious co-production players.
BossaNovaFilms already teamed on Wood’s Sundance winner, “Violeta Went to Heaven.”
Written by Wood and Guillermo Calderón, co-writer of Pablo Larrain’s “The Club” and writer of his “Neruda,” regarded by some as his finest film to date, “Araña,” a political thriller, also joins a lineage of Latin American movies which in their multi-lateral co-production structure, stars – such as Mercedes Morán, who plays Inés, more mainstream tropes, and above norm budget, set out to score audiences outside their country of origin.
Wood’s credits include “Sundance winner “Violeta Went to Heaven,...
Produced by Alejandra García at Santiago de Chile’s Wood Producciones, “Araña” is co-produced by Brazil’s BossaNovaFilms and Argentina’s Magma Cine, two of Southern America’s most ambitious co-production players.
BossaNovaFilms already teamed on Wood’s Sundance winner, “Violeta Went to Heaven.”
Written by Wood and Guillermo Calderón, co-writer of Pablo Larrain’s “The Club” and writer of his “Neruda,” regarded by some as his finest film to date, “Araña,” a political thriller, also joins a lineage of Latin American movies which in their multi-lateral co-production structure, stars – such as Mercedes Morán, who plays Inés, more mainstream tropes, and above norm budget, set out to score audiences outside their country of origin.
Wood’s credits include “Sundance winner “Violeta Went to Heaven,...
- 12/10/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Oct 19, 2017
We chatted to actor Paul Kaye about playing wizards, the musical Matilda, and his move from celebrity satire to serious drama…
Main image credit: Jordan Katz-Kaye
“Bitterness, really” is Paul Kaye’s explanation of what drove his satirical red-carpet interviewer Dennis Pennis in the nineties. “I’d hit thirty, I’d sort of failed as a musician, I’d failed as an artist I felt at the time.” Ambushing Hollywood’s elite in the persona of a brash, punk nuisance wasn’t Kaye’s first choice for stardom, he admits. “It wasn’t how I expected to forge a career. Of all the things I thought I’d end up doing, it wasn’t that.”
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Trained in theatre design, in his twenties Kaye worked as an illustrator...
We chatted to actor Paul Kaye about playing wizards, the musical Matilda, and his move from celebrity satire to serious drama…
Main image credit: Jordan Katz-Kaye
“Bitterness, really” is Paul Kaye’s explanation of what drove his satirical red-carpet interviewer Dennis Pennis in the nineties. “I’d hit thirty, I’d sort of failed as a musician, I’d failed as an artist I felt at the time.” Ambushing Hollywood’s elite in the persona of a brash, punk nuisance wasn’t Kaye’s first choice for stardom, he admits. “It wasn’t how I expected to forge a career. Of all the things I thought I’d end up doing, it wasn’t that.”
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Trained in theatre design, in his twenties Kaye worked as an illustrator...
- 10/18/2017
- Den of Geek
Chicago – “In me nothing is extinguished or forgotten…” is a single line from a poem by Pablo Neruda (“If You Forget Me”), and succinctly describes the film tribute to him, written by Neruda’s fellow Chilean countryman Guillermo Calderón, and directed with grace by another Chilean, Pablo Larrain.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Hot off Larrain’s other superior biography, “Jackie,” this exploration of an important life moment of Pablo Neruda is finely tuned, literary and archly cinematic. It’s a dreamlike journey, but never floats away, and is anchored by passionate characterizations from Luis Gnecco as the title character, and the always interesting and sharp Gael García Bernal. It is a cat-and-mouse game that may be just cat or just mouse, depending on how your point of view actualizes the story. Although bordering on vague, it ultimately is entrancing, and makes for a variable comparison to the equally virtuous “Jackie.” Larrain might have...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Hot off Larrain’s other superior biography, “Jackie,” this exploration of an important life moment of Pablo Neruda is finely tuned, literary and archly cinematic. It’s a dreamlike journey, but never floats away, and is anchored by passionate characterizations from Luis Gnecco as the title character, and the always interesting and sharp Gael García Bernal. It is a cat-and-mouse game that may be just cat or just mouse, depending on how your point of view actualizes the story. Although bordering on vague, it ultimately is entrancing, and makes for a variable comparison to the equally virtuous “Jackie.” Larrain might have...
- 1/4/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
At first glance, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s Neruda seems to have a lot in common with his English-language debut, Jackie (which opened only two weeks ago and is still rolling out in limited release). Both are unconventional biopics that take exciting creative liberties with the form, focusing intently but expressionistically on a brief stretch in each of the title characters’ lives. And both take place in the political realm, albeit somewhat indirectly: Jacqueline Kennedy was the president’s widow, while Pablo Neruda is much better known—in the U.S., at least—as a great poet than as a senator for the Chilean communist party.
Despite those superficial similarities, though, Neruda is ultimately a very different film than Jackie, and arguably the bolder of the two. Its palette is darker, even as its sensibility is less somber, more playful. Most significantly, Neruda, written by Guillermo Calderón (who also penned...
Despite those superficial similarities, though, Neruda is ultimately a very different film than Jackie, and arguably the bolder of the two. Its palette is darker, even as its sensibility is less somber, more playful. Most significantly, Neruda, written by Guillermo Calderón (who also penned...
- 12/15/2016
- by Mike D'Angelo
- avclub.com
Neruda The Orchard Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Pablo Larraín Written by: Guillermo Calderón Cast: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Diego Muñoz, Pablo Derqui Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 9/6/16 Opens: December 16, 2016 You wouldn’t think that the working class and the unemployed poor, with all their anxieties and day-to-day hassles, would have the time or inclination to read poetry. That’s probably the case in the U.S. today, where poetry attracts only small numbers of people, but in the 1940s, before TV and the Internet, verses enjoyed greater popularity. Those who like poetry inevitably say that reading it makes them feel more alive, more [ Read More ]
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- 12/12/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Gael García Bernal’s Inspector Oscar Peluchonneau will not play a supporting character in poet Pablo Neruda’s story, even if it means traveling all over Chile to find him. Pablo Larraín’s latest Spanish-language drama, “Neruda,” stars Luis Gnecco as the beloved writer who is forced into hiding after political tides shift in Chile.
Set in 1948, the film tells the cat-and-mouse story of fugitive Communist politician and popular poet Neruda as he’s forced underground, with a perseverant police inspector (Bernal) hot on his trail. While he and his wife, painter Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán), move from location to location, he cunningly plays with the inspector, leaving clues designed to make his search more perilous — using this as chance to become a symbol for liberty.
“Supporting character? Me?” says Bernal in the new trailer released by The Orchard Movies. “No, sir. Because I’m going to catch you.
Set in 1948, the film tells the cat-and-mouse story of fugitive Communist politician and popular poet Neruda as he’s forced underground, with a perseverant police inspector (Bernal) hot on his trail. While he and his wife, painter Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán), move from location to location, he cunningly plays with the inspector, leaving clues designed to make his search more perilous — using this as chance to become a symbol for liberty.
“Supporting character? Me?” says Bernal in the new trailer released by The Orchard Movies. “No, sir. Because I’m going to catch you.
- 10/22/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment.
With its promotional campaign reaching a fever pitch, “The Girl on the Train” careened into theaters like some crazed locomotive manned by Jon Voight in a knit beanie, promising yet another affirmation of pop literature’s power in the box office. While sardonic vigilantes and humanist marine life remain the most reliable earmarks of successful commercial cinema, recent years have seen an increasing number of literary adaptations achieve blockbuster status.
Whether major franchises (“Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games”) or more critically competitive one-offs (“Gone Girl,” “American Sniper”), studios are growing increasingly adept at shuttling extant fan bases into theaters to watch beloved fictions and nonfictions translated to the big screen. Complete with readymade press points tied to...
With its promotional campaign reaching a fever pitch, “The Girl on the Train” careened into theaters like some crazed locomotive manned by Jon Voight in a knit beanie, promising yet another affirmation of pop literature’s power in the box office. While sardonic vigilantes and humanist marine life remain the most reliable earmarks of successful commercial cinema, recent years have seen an increasing number of literary adaptations achieve blockbuster status.
Whether major franchises (“Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games”) or more critically competitive one-offs (“Gone Girl,” “American Sniper”), studios are growing increasingly adept at shuttling extant fan bases into theaters to watch beloved fictions and nonfictions translated to the big screen. Complete with readymade press points tied to...
- 10/15/2016
- by Lee Purvey
- Indiewire
Pablo Larraín’s biopic and current Toronto International Film festival selection has been selected as Chile’s foreign-language Oscar submission.
Participant Media co-produced and financed Neruda with Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.
The Orchard is the North American distributor and will release the film on December 16.
Luis Gnecco and Gael Garcia Bernal star in the story about the famed poet and communist who takes flight from the authorities in the years after World War Two.
Guillermo Calderón wrote the screenplay.
Participant Media co-produced and financed Neruda with Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.
The Orchard is the North American distributor and will release the film on December 16.
Luis Gnecco and Gael Garcia Bernal star in the story about the famed poet and communist who takes flight from the authorities in the years after World War Two.
Guillermo Calderón wrote the screenplay.
- 9/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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