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Primal Fear on Film: El Conde

Pablo Larraín's ("Jackie", "Spencer") wickedly funny, blood-soaked portrait of a decaying tyrant debuts on the 50th anniversary of Pinochet's coup in Chile.

10/29/2023
4 pm – 6 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

Pablo Larraín's ("Jackie", "Spencer") wickedly funny, blood-soaked portrait of a decaying tyrant debuts on the 50th anniversary of Pinochet's coup in Chile.

What if former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet—who was never tried for his crimes—didn't die? Larraín's sharp-toothed satire posits that the fascist monster is actually a 250-year-old vampire, still hiding out in the remote countryside. Cooped up with his embittered wife and slavish butler, El Conde skulks about his ruined mansion decrying a world that denies him his glory. The black comedy continues with the arrival of his grasping adult children and a nun tasked with exorcizing him. Edward Lachman's gorgeous black and white cinematography only heightens the Gothic feel of this surreal and wholly enthralling tale.

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Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
Permanent URL to this event: https://president.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=72008

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