Pablo Larrain

Is there an actress of the modern era more celebrated for her daring choices and committed performances than Kristen Stewart? Certainly she has no competitors in the English speaking world, and even in wider global cinema Stewart has…

Not long after the release of quasi-biopic Jackie comes Neruda, another film by the director Pablo Larrain centring upon a similarly renowned true-life personality. Set in 1948 Chile, the drama focuses upon the persecution and subsequent…

A man trains a greyhound on a windswept beach; a woman, warmly dressed, vigorously sweeps the paving outside a yellow house, built halfway up an incline; another, older, man digs in the terraced garden. The colouring is faded, greyish. It…