‘To count’
Manager: Pablo Larrain
Artists: Jaime Vadell, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers
Premiere: 9/15/23
Politics and memory are very present in his filmography. Pablo Larrain. Apart from some films that partially deviate from this concept, the Chilean filmmaker has been experimenting with fiction for fifteen years to reveal the darkest side of his country’s history through a game that is as obvious as it is perverse. This play led him to genre films many times. Although not primarily horror films, ‘Tony Manero’ (2008) or ‘Postmortem’ (2010) have the atmosphere, violence and hallucinatory state typical of this genre. With his formula of reaching truth from delusion, distorting history to reveal its evils (and villains), Larraín now takes another step in his entry into the genre and offers the following suggestions: a vampire movie.
In ‘The Count’, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire. But he’s not a metaphorical vampire either. He is a 250-year-old biting and flying vampire. Larraín’s film clearly states, a sharp political satire. The satire doesn’t always work equally well: ‘The Count’ has some wonderful dialogue and situations, but there are also others that are very crude. It also has some slightly sullen parts.
But as compensation, it is a film of absolutely irresistible beauty. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Edward Lachman, this photograph brings together some of the most spectacular scenes genre cinema has produced in recent years. The first flight of one of the characters An unprecedented beauty.