Neruda (Original title)
Dates: 2016 (Copyright), 2016 (Production)Countries: Chile, France, Argentina, Spain, USADirector: Pablo Larraín
Synopsis: A Chilean police inspector is set in pursuit of the poet Pablo Neruda who is wanted for arrest. Neruda treats the hunt as a game and plays with his pursuer as he makes his escape.Synopsis: For his sixth feature, Pablo Larraín turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda. Only this isn't so much a biopic as a boldly inventive and visually thrilling contemplation of identity and branding. It details how Neruda's public persona – as a romantic poet with a political conscience – was cemented in the late 1940s. Despite his vanity and snobbishness, Neruda (brilliantly played by Luis Gnecco) is a figure who inspires and animates, galvanising the ideals enshrined in his poetry. In 1948 as President González Videla (Larraín regular Alfredo Castro) begins to clamp down on communism in Chile, Neruda goes on the run with his wife Delia (Mercedes Morán). He is obsessively pursued by a detective, the wonderfully named Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal), who is doggedly determined not to be a supporting player in the escalating drama. So begins a chase that comes to acquire epic proportions as the lauded poet, aided by ordinary Communist party members, attempts to stay one step ahead of the authorities. Described by Larraín as an 'anti bio', Neruda is a dizzying cinematic adventure filmed with playful virtuosity. History, legend and fiction fuse to powerful effect, offering a beautifully performed, shadowy cat-and-mouse thriller, where the celebrated poet, a gloriously contradictory feature, forever eludes those trying to pin him down.
Genre: Biopic
Subject: Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)
Releases
Date: 11 August 2016Country: ChileRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): SpanishDistributor: 20th Century Fox de Chile
Date: 14 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: FestivalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: English
Date: April 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 107 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 07 April 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 107 mins 46 secs - Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Network Releasing
Dates: 2016 (Copyright), 2016 (Production)Countries: Chile, France, Argentina, Spain, USADirector: Pablo Larraín
Synopsis: A Chilean police inspector is set in pursuit of the poet Pablo Neruda who is wanted for arrest. Neruda treats the hunt as a game and plays with his pursuer as he makes his escape.Synopsis: For his sixth feature, Pablo Larraín turns to his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda. Only this isn't so much a biopic as a boldly inventive and visually thrilling contemplation of identity and branding. It details how Neruda's public persona – as a romantic poet with a political conscience – was cemented in the late 1940s. Despite his vanity and snobbishness, Neruda (brilliantly played by Luis Gnecco) is a figure who inspires and animates, galvanising the ideals enshrined in his poetry. In 1948 as President González Videla (Larraín regular Alfredo Castro) begins to clamp down on communism in Chile, Neruda goes on the run with his wife Delia (Mercedes Morán). He is obsessively pursued by a detective, the wonderfully named Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal), who is doggedly determined not to be a supporting player in the escalating drama. So begins a chase that comes to acquire epic proportions as the lauded poet, aided by ordinary Communist party members, attempts to stay one step ahead of the authorities. Described by Larraín as an 'anti bio', Neruda is a dizzying cinematic adventure filmed with playful virtuosity. History, legend and fiction fuse to powerful effect, offering a beautifully performed, shadowy cat-and-mouse thriller, where the celebrated poet, a gloriously contradictory feature, forever eludes those trying to pin him down.
Genre: Biopic
Subject: Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973)
Releases
Date: 11 August 2016Country: ChileRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): SpanishDistributor: 20th Century Fox de Chile
Date: 14 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: FestivalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 108 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: English
Date: April 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 107 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 07 April 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 107 mins 46 secs - Dialogue (original): Spanish / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Network Releasing
Credits
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©: Fabula, ©: Funny Balloons, ©: AZ Films, ©: Setembro Cine, ©: A.I.E. Willies Movies, Production Company: Fabula, Participant Media, in co-production with: Funny Balloons, in co-production with: Setembro Cine, in co-production with: AZ Films, in co-production with: Reborn Production, Telefe, with the participation of: RTVE, with the participation of: Banco Estado, with the participation of: Elipsis Capital, Movistar+, with the support of: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes - Fondo Audiovisual Corfo, with the support of: INCAA, ICAA, with the financing of the: Instituto de Crédito Oficial - ICO, With the participation of: L' Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, With the participation of: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, With the participation of: Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international, Institut Français, Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll, Executive Producer: Jonathan King, Executive Producer: Marc Simoncini, Executive Producer: Mariane Hartard, Executive Producer: Rocío Jadue, Produced by: Juan de Dios Larraín, Producer: Peter Danner, Producer: Renan Artukmaç, Producer: Alex Zito, Producer: Juan Pablo García, Producer: Ignacio Rey, Producer: Gastón Rothschild, Producer: Fernanda Del Nido, Production Manager: Alejandro Wise, Director of Production: Eduardo Castro C., Location Manager: Horacio Donoso, Post-production Supervisor: Cristian Echeverria, Post-production Supervisor: Frédéric J. Lozet, Researcher: Lorena Penjean, Researcher: Mónica Marín, 2nd Unit Director: Sebastián Radic, 2nd Assistant Director: María José Droguett, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Waldo Salgado, Script Supervisor: Cassandra Campos, Casting Director: Moira Miller, Casting Director: Alejandra Alaff, Written by: Guillermo Calderón, Script Consultant: Eliseo Altunaga, Director of Photography: Sergio Armstrong, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Víctor Rojas, Steadicam Operator: Dario Triviño, Gaffer: Víctor Rojas, Key Grip: José Blanco, Video Assist: Andrés Araya, Stills Photography: Diego Araya C., Stills Photography: Juan Ruiz, Stills Photography: José Luis Menares, Visual Effects Supervisor: Tomás Roca, Visual Effects: Garage, Editor: Hervé Schneid, Art Director: Estefania Larrain, Costume Designer: Muriel Parra, Head Make-up and Hair: Margarita Marchi, Colourist: Elie Akoka, Original Music: Federico Jusid, Sound Design: Miguel Hormazábal, Re-recording Mixer: Miguel Hormazábal, Re-recording Mixer: Roberto Zúñiga, Sound Editor: Ivo Moraga
Cast
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Luis Gnecco (Pablo Neruda), Gael García Bernal (Police Prefect Oscar Peluchonneau), Mercedes Morán (Delia del Carril), Emilio Gutiérrez Caba (Pablo Picasso), Diego Munoz (Martínez), Pablo Derqui (Víctor Pey), Michael Silva (Álvaro Jara), Jaime Vadell (Jorge Alessandri), Alfredo Castro (Gabriel González Videla), Marcelo Alonso (Pedro Domínguez), Francisco Reyes (Bianchi), Alejandro Goic (Jorge Bellet
), Amparo Noguera, Cristian Chaparro, Cristian Campos, Roberto Farías, Felipe Rios, Paola Lattus, Francisca Imboden, Juan José Ossa, Heidrun Breier (María Hagenaar)