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Pablo Larrin: Director's Set
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Tony Manero
RauI Peralta, a middle-aged criminaI 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 idoI and Ieading a small group of dancers as they perform at a bar in the outskirts of the city. His dream of being recognized as a successfuI showbiz star is about to become a reality when a Tony Manero impersonating contest is announced on national teIevision. However, his obsession to reproduce his idol's likeness and perfect his act drives him to commit a series of violent crimes and thefts, leading to shocking vioIence and murder.
Set during the tough sociaI context of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Tony Manero is an award winning thriIIer that Entertainment WeekIy caIls "a dark, edgy movie."
Post Mortem
A second part of director PabIo Larrain's celebrated trilogy about Chile during the dictatoriaI reign of Augusto Pinochet, Post Mortem is a "grim, intense, mordantIy comic Iittle film" (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 IoneyI, he becomes obsessed with his neighbor, the dancehalI girI Nancy (Anotnia Zegers), who is involved with a group of left-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 filters 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 recentIy compIeted No (2012), Post Mortem is "a new and originaI vision of poIitical terror" (J. Hoberman, Blouin Art lnfo) that remain urgently relevant to the repressive regimes of today. |
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