No (Larrain, 2012): Curzon Soho 6.20pm & Cine Lumiere 8.50pm
Actor and producer Gael García Bernal
will be at both events for a post-screening discussion. The film will get a general release on Friday February 8.
Time Out review:
'The revolution may not be televised, but as Pablo Larraín’s sharp satire
reminds us, that’s not to say a TV campaign can’t sell dissent to the
masses. Several months before Chilé’s 1988 referendum—which gave the
country’s citizens a chance to vote Augusto Pinochet out of office—both
the pro– and anti–El Presidente camps were allotted broadcast time to
hype their positions. Enter René (Gael García Bernal), a hotshot
marketing pitchman who takes charges of the “No” spots, and who finds
himself confronting both his country’s failings and his own. Larrain had
made a name for himself as an art-house terrorist with past NYFF
entries Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010), but
whimsy may actually be his stronger mode; the film’s cheesy ’80s
commercials function as both parodies and a light-handed political
commentary that still hits its marks. The decision to shoot in outdated
U-matic video adds period verisimilitude, but the film’s optimism—that
change is a possibility—couldn’t speak more to our current moment. Don’t
miss this.'
David Fear
Here is the trailer.
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