Pablo Larraín is in Italy where the prolific Chilean auteur – whose body of work comprises “Spencer” with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and “Jackie,” in which Natalie Portman portrayed Ja…
I’d like to start by asking you about your ties to Torino, where as part of the tribute there has been a screening of “Tony Manero,” your second film, which won two prizes at the Torino Film Festival in 2008.
You’ve been pretty prolific since then and treaded new ground visually and narratively with each film. Of course after “Tony Manero” you’ve often explored Chilean life under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet from different angles — most recently with “El Conde,” which is described as a black comedy centered on the figure of Pinochet transformed into a 250-year-old vampire.
And then look “El Conde,” the Count, it’s an old idea that is based on the most dangerous of all the potential concepts, which is that a figure like Pinochet might be eternal in a certain aspect.And that could have an interesting interaction with the literary and romantic perception of a vampire. And the idea of evil being able to feed itself in order to exist over the years and over the Trinity.
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