Sunday, February 10, 2013

MUST SEE: Pablo Larrain's No (Chile, 2012) - After "Tony Manero" and "Post Mortem," his devastating portraits of how the Pinochet regime psychologically brutalized the people of Chile from 1973-90, Chilean helmer Pablo Larrain satisfyingly completes the trilogy with an affirmative victory for democracy in "No." Tense throughout, even for history-savvy auds, but still rich in the sort of Andean-soil-black humor that made Larrain's previous work so distinctive, the pic stars Gael Garcia Bernal as an adman who helps the opposition fashion a campaign to get people to vote against keeping Pinochet in power in a 1988 referendum. Result will get plenty of yes votes from arthouse distribs worldwide. 2012CANdf, 2012LOCpg, 2012NYFF, 2012SANSzp, 2012TEL, 2012TOR, 2013OE, 2013ROTsp, 2013SUN. RATING: 8.

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