Archive: Keswick Film Festival

Friday 17th February 5:45 PM - Alhambra

Neruda

Director: Pablo Larraín Country: Chile/Argentina
Cert: 15 Year: 2016 Length: 108 minsLanguage: Spanish/English

2017 Festival

Audience Reaction

Score: 67.11% Attendance: 100

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Director Pablo Larrain’s follow up to The Club is an 'anti-bio' of one of Chile's most vital and intriguing figures: poet-diplomat and politician, Pablo Neruda. Set in 1948, Neruda finds himself on the wrong side of an anti-communist drive and is forced into hiding. Details of this exile are delivered in narration by Gael Garcia Bernal, playing the detective who is tasked with tracking him down.

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Critics

It is a brilliantly ambiguous, insidious portrait of an often venal and hypocritical man. Larrain’s skill is to draw him as someone who nevertheless deserves his heroic status as a key figure in Chile’s struggle