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 feature, an inventive black-and-white satire of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, is his first film for a streamer.
Larraín co-wrote and directed the film, which debuts in Competition at Venice this evening for Netflix. “I’m happy because this movie is going to be in a lot of living rooms.
It’s beautiful,” Larraín said of his work with the streamer. Starring his regular on-screen collaborators like Alfredo Castro and Amparo Noguera, El Conde is set in a parallel universe where fascist Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet exists as a vampire.
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