Neruda *** (2016, Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán) – Movie Review

‘Jackie‘ (2016) and The Club (2015) director Pablo Larraín’s 2016 biographical drama is an unusual, surprising eye-opener of a film. It is most welcome as an intriguing, provocative and different film. It is full of provocative ideas and it is very imaginatively shot by cinematographer Sergio Armstrong.

In the fact and fantasy intertwining screenplay by Guillermo Calderón, police inspector Óscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) is hunting the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and political activist Pablo Neruda (played by Luis Gnecco), who in the late Forties has become a fugitive in Chile after joining the Communist Party.

Bernal and Gnecco are also in Larraín’s ‘No’ (2011) together.

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