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Post Mortem

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Chile, Germany, Mexico · 2010
1h 38m
Director Pablo Larraín
Starring Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Amparo Noguera
Genre Thriller, Drama, Horror

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

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Time Out by David Fear

With his sophomore feature, "Tony Manero" (2008), filmmaker Pablo Larraín gave us both a memorably maniacal main character and a black-joke metaphor about the free-floating psychosis wafting through Pinochet's Chile.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Post Mortem portrays the specter of dictatorship through the lens of one man's private hell.

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Slant Magazine by Nick Schager

Pablo Larraín employs ultra-widescreen cinematography for constricting close-ups and inhospitably alienating compositions that generate a nasty chill, the director keeping the army's brutality off screen to amplify a sense of oppressive malevolence.

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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

With its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.

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