Director Pablo Larraín (The Club, No, Jackie) and writer Guillermo Calderón (The Club, Violeta Went to Heaven) weave a dramatic tale centered around an ambitious police inspector portrayed by Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle, Y tu mamá también), who launches a search for Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and politician. It’s 1948, Neruda has become a fugitive in his own country, forced to go into hiding for joining the Communist party and openly condemning the President. The police inspector hopes to make a name for himself by capturing the runaway celebrity. Neruda is part “cat-and-mouse” caper – and also a visually stunning and inventive biopic about poetry and politics. Selected as the Chilean entry to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Neruda is garnering well-deserved international praise for its riveting, unconventional portrayal of the famed poet – and the dogged detective who’s hot on his trail. (Running TIme: 107 minutes)
