Tony Manero (2008)
Country: CHI/BRA
Technical: col 97m
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Synopsis:
During the late 1970s, a dancer is obsessed with the character of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, and enters a television lookalike contest. So ruthless is his ambition that he treats his fellow citizens and family like chattels and ignores all moral restraints on his behaviour.
Review:
Extraordinary allegory of the Pinochet years, with a loathsome central character, whom we nevertheless follow around relentlessly as if he were the last man of sane purpose in a society of zombies. Dodging patrols and looting corpses, he becomes a curious amalgam of 'anti-freedom fighter', an avatar of Pinochet himself, a popinjay in bed with American culture. The aesthetic is handheld and grimy in the new Latin American cinema style, but Castro is a mesmerising presence, right up to the inscrutable final shot.
Country: CHI/BRA
Technical: col 97m
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Synopsis:
During the late 1970s, a dancer is obsessed with the character of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, and enters a television lookalike contest. So ruthless is his ambition that he treats his fellow citizens and family like chattels and ignores all moral restraints on his behaviour.
Review:
Extraordinary allegory of the Pinochet years, with a loathsome central character, whom we nevertheless follow around relentlessly as if he were the last man of sane purpose in a society of zombies. Dodging patrols and looting corpses, he becomes a curious amalgam of 'anti-freedom fighter', an avatar of Pinochet himself, a popinjay in bed with American culture. The aesthetic is handheld and grimy in the new Latin American cinema style, but Castro is a mesmerising presence, right up to the inscrutable final shot.
Country: CHI/BRA
Technical: col 97m
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Synopsis:
During the late 1970s, a dancer is obsessed with the character of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, and enters a television lookalike contest. So ruthless is his ambition that he treats his fellow citizens and family like chattels and ignores all moral restraints on his behaviour.
Review:
Extraordinary allegory of the Pinochet years, with a loathsome central character, whom we nevertheless follow around relentlessly as if he were the last man of sane purpose in a society of zombies. Dodging patrols and looting corpses, he becomes a curious amalgam of 'anti-freedom fighter', an avatar of Pinochet himself, a popinjay in bed with American culture. The aesthetic is handheld and grimy in the new Latin American cinema style, but Castro is a mesmerising presence, right up to the inscrutable final shot.