We’re told this little bit of backstory by an offscreen narrator (Stella Gonet), whose identity is kept secret until they swoop into the narrative themselves – a hell of a reveal, even if Gonet’s ...

Aug. 10 (UPI) --Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new movie El Conde. The streaming service shared a trailer for the black comedy film Thursday. El Conde is a new satire written by Chilean filmmakers ...

As Chile prepares to mark 50 years since the Sept. 11, 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet, Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín is back in Venice – following “Spencer” in 2021 – with scathing satire “El Conde,” in ...

Everyone knows that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006 at the age of 91, more than 30 years after he seized power from Salvador Allende in a coup d’état that was followed by ...

Making main competition at the 49 th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival in Spain, “Prison in the Andes” (“Penal Cordillera”) trains a spotlight on the scandalous imprisonment of five high-ranking ...

What is the correct distance from which to film a dictator? You could give him a close-up, revealing his psychic wounds, in a biopic or drama. You could turn on a spotlight, make him sing and dance ...

With six feature credits in the last decade, Pablo Larraín is among the most prolific filmmakers working today, but he returns to the Lido this week with a new proposition. El Conde, his latest ...

Born on Nov. 25, 1915, Augusto José Ramón Pinochet would rise through the ranks of the Chilean military and, having become commander-in-chief of the nation’s army, lead a coup against the country’s ...

Patricio Guzman, a Chilean now living in Paris, began work on this wrenching 2001 documentary after hearing that General Augusto Pinochet had been arrested in London to be tried in Spain for murders ...

History tells us that Augusto Pinochet wasn’t a 250-year-old vampire who feasted on the blood of innocents, but El Conde disagrees. Pablo Larraín’s mesmerizing new film is a strange addition to the ...

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Cinema Academy on Tuesday selected a film set in Chile after the Pinochet dictatorship as the country's nomination to compete for the Oscar for best foreign language film."El ...