Pablo Larraín Regular Alfredo Castro On The Director’s “Very Weird” Vampire Pic ‘El Conde’ & Challenging Chile’s Colonial Past With Cannes Title ‘The Settlers’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Veteran Actor Alfredo Castro (The Club, No, From Afar) is in the middle of what could be described as a mid-career boom, but he doesn’t think it’ll bring him many plaudits in his native country. “I think I will have to leave Chile,” Castro joked as he sat down with Deadline virtually from Santiago.
Last month, Castro was out in Cannes with The Settlers (Los Colonos), a tight and shrewd historical drama from Felipe Gálvez.
Set in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century, the pic follows a wealthy landowner, played by Castro, who hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
The expedition, composed of a young Chilean mestizo, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid against Chile’s indigenous population.
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