An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 36 nominations
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- Taglines
- Olvida lo que sabes. [Forget what you know.]
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- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for sexuality/nudity and some language
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- TriviaOfficial submission of Chile for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
- Quotes
Álvaro Jara: What you want is a great escape. Yes?
Pablo Neruda: I won't play the fascists' game. I'll become their worst nightmare. In order to do that, I need to be a popular giant.
Álvaro Jara: You can't do that.
Pablo Neruda: I already have.
Álvaro Jara: No, you can't. People would say you used this persecution to become a saint. That we were never actually oppressed. That we like to play the victim. That we like to suffer. But they're killing us, for real. Look. I only ask you to be a bit more humble. Good luck on your journey.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pick of the Litter (2018)
- SoundtracksSabes que te quiero
Composed by Carlos Cabezas (as Carlos Cabezas Rocuant)
Performed by Danilo Donoso(Percussion), Daniel Espinoza (Trumpet), Bernardo Lama(Trombone), Fernando Julio(Contrabass)
Engraving, mixing and mastering in Estudios Cablesanto 2015 y 2016
Oscar Pelochonneau represents a typical instrument of these dictatorships: the military/cop/bureaucrat/judge who executes the unjust sentences. Even if he reads Neruda's poetry, he does not understand it; he is under the weight of his mediocrity. Moreover, he despises the rebels-in a scene we see how he calls them scums; and this shows his ignorance.
Neruda represents then the creator, the artist whose words transcend historical time-his words survive the temporary regimes and give hope to those who suffer. In this sense, in a surprising act, we see how Neruda's friends give away clues to where he might be - he can't be apprehended because his creation cannot be apprehended, so we might just well tell you where he is. Also, in this sense, even his follower and what he represents is an idea that the writers of age imagined already.
Common in Latin America literature and cinema (eg Madeinusa, Jauja), we encounter a mysterious, lawless, remote and harsh territory. In these territories one uninitiated foreigner might experience transformation and sometimes redemption. Now, we have Oscar following Neruda in such a territory at the country border. We may expect that after his experience here, the typical Oscar will raise somewhere to be a better person.
Perhaps due to the focus on the above themes and the pursuing story, there is a smaller emphasis on the actual poetry or on his socialist views. It's interesting to glimpse into the beginnings of socialist attempts in Chile. The movie raises other questions-say, how a bourgeois as Neruda is after all, is understanding the lower class - and he is confronted about this by a peasant. Other question: up to what point you risk your freedom to help him escape?
- theta30
- Apr 20, 2017
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- 追緝聶魯達
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $939,101
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $29,402
- Dec 18, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $3,884,746
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