The 2017 International Film Festival, sponsored by the Department of Modern & Classical Languages at Allegheny College, concludes on Wednesday, March 15th with “Neruda” from Chile. The film screens at The Movies @ Meadville, 11155 Highline Drive, Meadville PA 16335, beginning at 7:00 pm.
FREE ADMISSION
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Free shuttle for Allegheny students departing from North Main St. at Brooks Walk at 6:10 & 6:30 pm
The Chilean director Pablo Larraín calls “Neruda,” his latest movie, “the anti-bio.” Part fact, part glorious fantasy, it opens in 1948, shortly before the poet Pablo Neruda (a magnificent Luis Gnecco), is forced to go into hiding. A Communist and senator, Neruda has become an enemy of the state, having violently and very publicly condemned the Chilean President Gabriel González Videla. Chased from the Senate and his home, Neruda flees with his artist-wife, Delia (Mercedes Moran), the two slipping underground while chased by a vainglorious cop (played by Gael García Bernal, the star of “No”). – Manohla Dargis, NY TImes
“For anyone who believes that poetry and democracy spring from the same source and provoke the same enemies, this movie provides both encouragement and warning.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“This is a serious movie that often feels playful, one that has metafictional ambitions but wears them lightly. You can surrender to the enjoyment of the chase at the film’s heart, while not losing sight of Larraín’s serious aims.”
– Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle
Neruda
Chile (2016)
Director: Pablo Larraín
Rated R – 107 mins.