El Conde (Pable Larraín, 2023) Jaime Vadell; satire; Augusto Pinochet, aged vampire, decides to die once and for all
Peter Bradshaw:
... a gothic fantasy about vampires is not the same as a documentary, although veterans of the 1973 coup may feel the film has missed out Americans in favour of more obvious targets. Having said this, the reductionism of this crazed alt-history mythology has a lot of graphic novel energy and directness, which the whole clotted central section about the butler and accountant/nun doesn’t quite. And the use of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on the soundtrack is a bit route one. But this is another powerful addition to Larraín’s movies about the ongoing agony of Chile, and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront the past, armed with the hammer and the sharpened stake. The Guardian.
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