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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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NoQuote: No is a 2012 Chilean film directed by Pablo Larraín. The film is based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito, written by Antonio Skármeta. Mexican actor Gael García Bernal plays René, an in-demand advertising man working in Chile in the late 1980s. The historical moment the film captures is when advertising tactics came to be widely used in political campaigns. The campaign in question was the historic 1988 plebiscite of the Chilean citizenry over whether general Pinochet should have another 8 year term as President.
At the 85th Academy Awards the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:25 am |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: No
Nominated for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, No is a fact derived, stylized, and often amusing political drama set in Chile during the final month of the cruel and longstanding dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Gael García Bernal portrays a cynical Generation X advertising hotshot enlisted to devise and create a print and television campaign urging the divided and frightened electorate to vote against the general in an upcoming plebiscite, a vote many believe to be fixed. His vision of an MTV style campaign emphasizing a broad, pop, rainbow colored democratic joy mystifies and upsets a grim and noble left-wing elite eager to emphasize a long list of crimes against the population, including abduction and torture. The film may never prove mind-blowing, but from García Bernal's confident and soulful performance to the interesting perspective on display--a portrait of the road to freedom for an entire nation via a biting, small-scale media satire--it is entertaining, satisfying, and thoughtful from start to finish. A definite achievement, one Chile should be proud of as it opens around the globe. The one element which may prove most divisive: an aesthetic recreation of low-budget footage captured on video in the late eighties, from dim and wavering colors to visible scan lines. My reaction is mixed: I admire the left-field visual gambit, but it is, in a very basic way, a tad exhausting for the eye, coupled with yellow subtitles in particular.
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Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:27 am |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: No
The aesthetic - hewing as closely as possible to the late-80s era - takes some getting used to, but the narrative is compelling and fascinating, and Bernal is terrific as an ad man-turned-political campaigner. Its sense of time and place is as authentic and tangible as Mad Men, giving the 25-year-old archival footage a real sense of spontaneity and freshness. It's probably not better than Amour, but certainly worthy of the Oscar nomination.
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:33 am |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Re: No
I am pissed. I had a chance to see it at a press screening and I passed.
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