Country: Chile,
Year: 2012
Duration: 115'
Chile, 1988. Under worldwide pressure, Pinochet is forced to call for elections that will decide the future of his dictatorship, prolonging it for another eight years. To avoid that, the “no” party entrusts its public opinion campaign to René Saavedra, a young and aggressive ad man. The small budget and close surveillance of police don’t keep René and his collaborators from creating an ingenious ad campaign which sweeps the “no” party to victory, in accordance with the entire nation’s desire for freedom.
Biography
film director
Pablo Larrain
Pablo Larraín (Santiago, Chile, 1976) studied audiovisual communications at Santiago’s UNIAAC. He is one of the founders of Fabula, a film production and advertising company. In 2005, he directed his first feature film, Fuga, which received awards at the Cartagena Film Festival, at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival and at Trieste’s Latin American Film Festival. His next film, Tony Manero, won the 2008 Torino Film Festival and received much international recognition, as did Post Mortem (2010), which competed at the Venice Film Festival. In 2011, he produced and directed with Jonathan Jakubowicz the TV series Prófugos. In 2012, his film No won the CICAE Award at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fuga (2005), Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010), Prófugos (coregia/codirector Jonathan Jakubowicz, tv, 2011), No (2012).
Declaration
film director
“We decided to shoot in the same format used to shoot practically all the archive footage in the film. As a result, we achieved images identical to those shot in the 80s so the spectator has access to this rare footage without being aware of what is archive footage and what was shot for the film. In doing so, we were able to avoid making the usage of archive material evident, creating a seamless combination of time, space and material generated with Ikegami tube cameras from 1983.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Pablo Larraín
soggetto/story dalla pièce/from the play Referendum di/by Antonio Skármeta sceneggiatura/screenplay Pedro Peirano
fotografia/cinematography Sergio Armstrong
montaggio/film editing Andrea Chignoli
scenografia/production design Eduardo Castro
suono/sound Miguel Hormazabal
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Gael García Bernal (René Saavedra), Alfredo Castro (Lucho Guzman), Antónia Zegers (Verónica Caravajal), Luis Gnecco (Urrutia), Marcial Tagle (Costa), Nastor Cantillana (Arancibia), Jaime Vadell (il ministro/minister), Pascal Monter (Simon)
produttori/producers Juan de Dios Larrain, Daniel Dreifuss
produzione/production Fabula, Participant Media, Canana
distribuzione/distribution Sony Picture Classics
soggetto/story dalla pièce/from the play Referendum di/by Antonio Skármeta sceneggiatura/screenplay Pedro Peirano
fotografia/cinematography Sergio Armstrong
montaggio/film editing Andrea Chignoli
scenografia/production design Eduardo Castro
suono/sound Miguel Hormazabal
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Gael García Bernal (René Saavedra), Alfredo Castro (Lucho Guzman), Antónia Zegers (Verónica Caravajal), Luis Gnecco (Urrutia), Marcial Tagle (Costa), Nastor Cantillana (Arancibia), Jaime Vadell (il ministro/minister), Pascal Monter (Simon)
produttori/producers Juan de Dios Larrain, Daniel Dreifuss
produzione/production Fabula, Participant Media, Canana
distribuzione/distribution Sony Picture Classics
TFF
prizes
