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Pablo Larraín | NERUDA | Dialogues from Directors' Fortnight
In partnership with the Directors' Fortnight, we are presenting the Q&A (in Spanish and French) with Chilean director Pablo Larraín joined by his cast, including Gael García Bernal, after the world premiere of NERUDA at the festival: https://mubi.io/34v0C7I
Synopsis: Chile, 1948: Senator Pablo Neruda, diplomat and future Nobel Prize-winning poet, accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached. Pursued by the police, Neruda and his artist wife are forced into hiding and an intimate game of cat and mouse begins.
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I think it's a project that asks Chile to tackle a figure like that.
Hello, good morning.
Well, yes, the truth is that, for us, Meluda is a very...
We were trying to make a film about Meluda,
a film about the things that provoke us.
when he receives the Nobel Prize.
And there is a very interesting part,
because it is very important at this moment in his life,
when he receives the Nobel Prize,
there is a part that he says,
after he writes,
he crosses the line,
and everything he said,
he says that he does not know if he wrote it,
thought about it,
lived it or dreamed it.
And I think that he is a brilliant lecturer,
a great one,
who invites us to be an instructor.
Hello everyone,
thank you for being here.
The figure of Neruda is an extremely important figure, but on a very different level.
We wanted to make a film about Neruda, but also about a film about Neruda.
We left aside the ambition of wanting to have an absolute, complete and exhaustive approach to the character.
We rather tried to ask ourselves what Neruda was causing in us,
and what would be another way to flow into his world, into his universe.
It's quite interesting because yesterday, Louis released an excerpt from the speech that Lauda gave when he received the Nobel Prize.
He mentioned a lot of the periods of his life, namely this clandestine period that he went through in the camp yesterday.
and he himself says a lot of things that happened in his life.
What I remember from this period of my life, I do not know today if I lived them, if I thought about them or if I dreamed of them.
And for us it was very important also, even if we meet retrospectively, to have had this approach there
and in the structure of our proposal to Nyeruda, to keep this ludic relationship with the subject.
we listen to the movie.
The first one, with the police and the creation,
and also the voice of the concept,
was the game of creation and creation of the place.
Well, it was a very long work,
done by Guillaume Delon.
I had 160 pages and we tried to adapt it.
It was difficult to do it in two steps, but I think that the character, for me personally,
this character, has been my character.
It is necessary to add 20 pages more, it can not be otherwise.
Indeed, the voices are very important, you speak of two voices that are responding,
but for now, in fact, they do not make a difference.
I think that we can say that we are still the same person.
Not only to play Pablo Redondo, but also to play a character that we all know from Chile, also internationally.
How was that challenge for you, to play a character that existed, that is known, and that is also for the black?
It's a challenge, but as an actor, you take on that challenge, you mobilize yourself.
because the actor can only take a part of his life.
And this is the case in the film.
