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PABLO LARRAÍN

FROM THE GHOSTS OF PINOCHET TO PORTRAITS OF DIVAS IN
ANGUISH

Involved in the project “The True Ame- mental dissonance of its protagonist,
rican,” about the background to 9/11, written and played by Alfredo Castro,
Pablo Larraín Matte gained notoriety the filmmaker's partner in other expe-
in 2008, when he took Cannes by storm riences. It drew even more attention
with “Tony Manero.”. There he told the for the chronicle it constructed from
story of a serial killer obsessed with the the darkest memories of Pablo's native
Marxist dancer hero who made John Chile. This Chilean pain was associated
Travolta a screen icon in 1977. with and terrorised by the dictatorial
rodrigo fonseca figure Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006),
a statesman in uniform who was the
He had a more modest project on his subject of several of Larraín's films,
CV, “Fuga” (2006), which was already including the impeccable "Post Mor-
being made under the Fabula label, tem" (2010), a thriller that brought him
the name of the production company closer to the Venice Film Festival after
he founded in 2003 with his brother, being nominated for the Golden Lion.
Juan de Dios. Manero's saga attrac- The land of gondolas always reserves a
ted attention for its approach to the place for this director, born on August

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