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Neruda

2016

Pablo Larraín

Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Alfredo Castro ...

6.2

3,558

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"An unlikely, often surreal and incredibly entertaining film (...) Dizzily constructed and full of more life and meaning than most “real” biopics, it’s a risk worth taking (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Neruda is, like all the Larraín films I've seen, laudable in its ambitions and ultimately unsatisfying in its execution (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Surprises always come at the end of Pablo Larraín’s films (...) 'Neruda' is no different, representing the director at his stunning best with a work of such cleverness and beauty (...) that it’s hard to know how to parcel out praise"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[Neruda] begins as a straightforward period piece before evolving into something far more intriguing (...) Bernal has rarely been better"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"A fascinating—though overlong and sometimes slow—trackdown fantasy with literary and political resonance"	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	With “Neruda,” director Pablo Larrain set out to make an anti-biopic and totally stumbled (...) But don’t lose hope! Instead of smashing the genre, Larrain has gone and made a smashing film"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[Neruda] at times is more playful than illuminating, but it's also a handsomely crafted and boldly idiosyncratic contemplation of a great artist for whom political compromise was anathema"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York 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"	POS

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