El Conde

Original title: El conde

2023
R
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

15K

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Dark Comedy Satire Comedy Fantasy History Horror

After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Director
- Pablo Larraín
Writers
- Guillermo Calderón
- Pablo Larraín
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

15K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Pablo Larraín
Writers
- Guillermo Calderón
- Pablo Larraín
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 9 wins & 13 nominations total

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Trivia
In a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pablo Larraín spoke about the origin of the idea of vampires making blood smoothies: "Well, it's a joke. I don't know ... every time I go to L.A., there are all these people making smoothies out of anything and everything. (Laughs.) And that became a fashion everywhere - it spread from California to everywhere. So, we thought that instead of having the vampires do the classical neck bite and sucking the blood and all that, this smoothie thing would be a funny idea and an interesting political comment, too - to open the chest of someone and take out their heart and put it into a blender. You know, the vampires are very eloquent and particular in their motivations."

Goofs
Marie Antoinette's body was buried in a pit, not a tomb. After the revolution, her body was unearthed, identified, and then reburied in a coffin in the basement of St. Denis basilica.

Quotes
Margaret: If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Connections
Featured in The Oscars (2024)

Soundtracks
Radetzky March
Composed by Johann Strauss
Performed by Coro Escuela Militar

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Review

Featured review

6/10

For a specific audience

I'm still not too sure what to make of Pablo Larrain's "El Conde", a movie that while artistically impressive, seemingly has a ton of historical context that's lost on anyone not familiar with the Chilean history it tries to critique and satirize. The obvious is that it portrays Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a centuries old vampire, and while what follows could(?) hold a lot of interpretive value to those who are of its ideal target audience, it is almost a gimmick gradually overstaying its welcome to those who aren't.

It's undoubtedly a visual masterpiece, with some of the most surreally beautiful cinematography you'll ever see, and its exploration into themes of power and corruption are amusingly perceptive. But at the end of the day, it feels like "El Conde" was intended for a particular audience who could fully appreciate the movie, and unfortunately to those of us who aren't part of it, it might come across as just another gimmick.