Neruda de Pablo Larraín
Channel: El Espejo
Date: 2016-05-16

Título original: Neruda
Año: 2016
Países: Chile, España, Argentina y Francia
Género: Biográfico, drama
Director: Pablo Larraín
Reparto: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Mercedes Morán, Pablo Derqui.
Guión: Guillermo Calderón.
Producción: Peter Danner, Fernanda Del Nido, Juan Pablo García, Axel Kuschevatzky, Juan de Dios Larraín, Ignacio Rey, Gastón Rothschild, Jeff Skoll y Alex Zito.


SYNOPSIS
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. In congress, Senator Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached by President Gonzalez Videla (Alfredo Castro). Police Prefect Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) is assigned to arrest the poet.
Neruda tries to flee the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán), but they are forced into hiding. Inspired by the dramatic events of his new life as a fugitive, Neruda writes his epic collection of poems, “Canto General”. Meanwhile, in Europe, the legend of the poet hounded by the policeman grows, and artists led by Pablo Picasso clamor for Neruda’s freedom.
Neruda, however, sees this struggle with his nemesis Peluchonneau as an opportunity to reinvent himself.
He plays with the inspector, leaving clues designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse more dangerous, more intimate. In this story of a persecuted poet and his implacable adversary, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary legend.