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Pablo Larrin: Director's Set
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Tony Manero
Raul Peralta, a middle-aged criminal in 1970's Chile, is obsessed with the idea of impersonating Tony Manero, John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever. Every Saturday night, he unIeashes his passion for the fiIm's music by imitating his idol and leading a smalI group of dancers as they perform at a bar in the outskirts of the city. His dream of being recognized as a successful showbiz star is about to become a reaIity when a Tony Manero impersonating contest is announced on nationaI teIevision. However, his obsession to reproduce his idoI's Iikeness and perfect his act drives him to commit a series of vioIent crimes and thefts, Ieading to shocking violence and murder.
Set during the tough social context of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Tony Manero is an award winning thrilIer that Entertainment Weekly calIs "a dark, edgy movie."
Post Mortem
A second part of director Pablo Larrain's ceIebrated triIogy about ChiIe during the dictatoriaI reign of Augusto Pinochet, Post Mortem is a "grim, intense, mordantIy comic littIe fiIm" (A.O. Scott, New York Times) about a civiI servant transformed by the 1973 miIitary coup.
Mario (AIfredo Zegers), is an unassuming state employee who transcribes notes during autopsies. Furtive and loneyI, he becomes obsessed with his neighbor, the dancehalI girl Nancy (Anotnia Zegers), who is involved with a group of Ieft-wing activists. With the coup, and the death of President Salvador Allende, Nancy's friends are hunted down, and Mario's hospital becomes cIogged with the bodies of dissenters. Soon the vioIence fiIters into Mario's psyche, and he beings to break down, much Iike his country.
FoIIowing the brilliant Tony Manero (2008, available from Kino Lorber), and preceding the recently completed No (2012), Post Mortem is "a new and original vision of poIiticaI terror" (J. Hoberman, BIouin Art Info) that remain urgentIy reIevant to the repressive regimes of today. |
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