This year Chile made it’s bid for the Academy Awards with Pablo Larrain’s drama, No, a film that chronicles the advertising campaign that took aim at the dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, and attempted to remove him from the throne, so to speak. The film, which stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antónia Zegers and Luis Dnecco among others, is set to be released on February 15, 2013 by Sony Picture Classics and looks almost like a political thriller with comedic roots rather than a regular drama.
The Academy will be releasing it’s short list of foreign film nominations this Friday so maybe this will make the cut and, if it does, it’ll jump higher on our list of movies to see come next year. Reviews have been pretty good so far and the trailer has definitely increased my interest in the film but I’ll let you be the judge so check out the trailer below.
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
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