
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.... (Full plot summary below)
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An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
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| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseAs a portrait of an artist with imperfections and genius, it has a truth that mere reportage cannot approach. As a portrait of a country grappling with applying abstract ideology to human endeavor, it is unimpeachable. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeLuis Gnecco is perfect in the title role, charismatic but understated, capable of captivating others with his speech but not too good looking, so we never make the mistake of interpreting the feelings he inspires as simple lust. |
| Seven DaysRick KisonakEqual parts detective story, political thriller, chase movie, black comedy and head trip, Larraín's film is unequaled in its breadth and intellectual boldness. |
| CineVueJohn BleasdaleGnecco has both breadth and subtlety. His Neruda is a complex and fascinating character study, a man fastidiously vain of his status but unconvinced by his own performance even as he enraptures a nation. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergSurprises always come at the end of Pablo Larraín’s films, when everything suddenly comes together and the audience sits in the cinema feeling both illuminated and floored. Neruda is no different, representing the director at his stunning best with a work of such cleverness and beauty, alongside such power, that it’s hard to know how to parcel out praise. |
| Radio TimesEmma SimmondsEvents are relayed with lashings of humour and romance, the sumptuous staging and showy camerawork fitting the flamboyant protagonist who's ill-suited to slumming it as a fugitive in the shadows. |
| Film-Forward.comRania RichardsonChilean director Pablo Larraín turns a standard biopic inside out in this stylish thriller with a literary bent. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonEvocative and dramatically compelling, the film drifts between fantasy and reality in a way that Neruda himself would appreciate. |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersPeluchonneau may not always know what he's doing and Neruda himself may also lean similarly towards self delusion but Larraín himself is always in control of this strangely funny but ultimately moving historical drama. |
| Alternate EndingTim BraytonA great piece of cinema and a great attempt to engage with history and pro-people politics. |