Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
History tells us that Augusto Pinochet wasn’t a 250-year-old vampire who feasted on the blood of innocents, but El Conde disagrees. Pablo Larraín’s mesmerizing new film is a strange addition to the ...
The Chilean director’s Netflix feature is political farce as darkly funny vampire horror, offering an inventive take on why despots keep sinking their fangs into the world. By David Rooney Chief Film ...
With his Netflix horror comedy “El Conde” (“The Count”), director Pablo Larraín uses a movie monster to satirize a real one. Horror movies, from “Night of the Living Dead” to “Get Out,” have long ...
Everyone knows that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006 at the age of 91, more than 30 years after he seized power from Salvador Allende in a coup d’état that was followed by ...