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With: Gael Garc’a Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Ant—nia Zegerz, Pascal Montero, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle, NŽstor Cantillana, Jaime Vadell
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Written by: Pedro Peirano, based on a play by Antonio Sk‡rmeta
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Directed by: Pablo Larra’n
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MPAA Rating: R for language
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Language: Spanish, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 118
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Date: 15/02/2013
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Vote 'Yes' for 'No'
By Jeffrey M. Anderson One of the Oscar nominees for Best
Foreign Language film, Pablo Larraín's No tells the story of an
advertising man, René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), who is hired to
cook up a campaign to defeat the supposedly undefeatable Augusto
Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. Larraín paints the film with a
smeary, smudgy color palette, presumably to capture the look of a
1988-era VHS video camcorder, and thereby steeping the viewer in an
extremely vivid feel of time and place. Screenwriter Pedro
Peirano does a fine job of pitching the film both at Americans and
people of a younger generation that may not be aware of these events,
but also pays tribute to those that do remember. The drawback is that
newcomers might not pick up on the film's subtle comic rhythms and
probably will not laugh quite as often as the filmmakers may have
intended, but the upbeat tone can still inspire smiles. Larraín
includes vintage clips of Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Fonda, and Christopher
Reeve, all of whome did their bit for the "No" campaign.
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