(Post Mortem, Chile, Mexico, Germany, 2010)
Making
Pablo Larraín
Scenario Pablo Larraín & Mateo Iribarren
Cast: Alfredo Castro (Mario Cornejo), Antonia Zegers (Nancy Puelmas) Jaime Vadell (Dr. Castillo), Amparo Noguera (Sandra Carreño), Marcelo Alonso (Victor), Marcial Tagle (captain Montes) ...
competed at the 67th International Film Festival 2010 Venice
Abstract
Santiago de Chile, September 1973 . Mario works in the morgue, where he writes the autopsy reports. Love with his neighbor Nancy , a cabaret dancer suspected of communist sympathies, his life will be disrupted by the coup against Salvador Allende ...
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73, as the shirt collar, like the colors already outdated before be, 73 years a certain shift in Chile.
Yet everything seems settled as a sad and eternal music paper in the life of Mario , his whereabouts at work driving his small car, his monotonous life of single, odd-looking man, a knife facies , crossed out by a fringe of long blond hair, he wears a three-piece suit of the importance of the official. Mario works at the morgue in Santiago and draws somehow autopsy reports, he notes in pencil before making typing a little neighbor. His hobby, his passion, watching his neighbor, a cabaret artist, he watches her come out and relieve inevitable erotic impulses, thinking of her. While
finally dares to approach, having followed him into the bowels, backstage, the show, he discovers a woman about to be fired.
Pablo Larraín plant decor, with lots of dull colors, this street, this old music hall, the very few outdoor scenes, made of gray or colors dull, dreary housing serving Mario Golf meeting of two solitudes, is it a budding romance. Mario wants to believe so, which already makes him his request, while protesters marched outside.
When he comes back after a tiring workday, after crossing among so many corpses a man leaving the lot, for which a whole corpse Staff seems to have moved the one he loves ... could she evaporated while in the streets, many houses appeared devastated, looted, burned!
Pablo Larrain does not enlighten us in any way, interpret the characters in settings that may as well be cardboard comedy strange, sometimes absurd and then some humor prevails. But Most of the time, while the bodies pile up in the morgue where they now resort to a quick count, the laughter turns yellow and only our hero flies over it all in stride, which demonstrates to just take the train of history here and the halo of a certain size. Yes, our hero is a good and beautiful idiot, yes, even his love can be dangerous, if not hide this love can be mine, bury the Enrage ... .. he!
Pablo Larrain not quote, does not name anyone or anything yet so it is good of Chile and the autopsy so critical is that of Salvador Allende, the military orders are those of Pinochet, and Mario ... a small, very small cog in this new system!
The arrival in power of a military dictatorship with a lot of corpses, what better place than a morgue to evoke the horror without having to display it!
CritiKat.Com "... Pablo Larraín left nothing to chance. A wide range of shades portrayed slurred sickly brown, fall asleep dispassionate when the Chilean capital.'s Oppressive reasons wallpapers, the strong presence of partitions, the monotony of vertical and horizontal lines, the gray Climate and concrete which is built the city, to the grain of the film reflects a lack of air, lack of space, freedom dying. In this dreary anesthesia meets a concern of every moment he can not only be a slight shock that everything falls apart because, already, just collapses.
The Monde.Fr - "Santiago 73, post-mortem" the Chilean coup seen by an employee of the morgue
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