Director Pablo Larraín’s latest film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, creating an alternate universe in which the Chilean tyrant is still alive as a 250-year-old bloodsucker.
Pablo Larrain / NetflixPablo Larraín is best known stateside for his biopics about famous 20th-century women: Jackie, Spencer, and the forthcoming Maria starring Angelina Jolie as acclaimed opera singer Maria Callas. Nonetheless, his finest works are those that grapple with tumultuous life in his native Chile under the dictatorial rule of Augusto Pinochet: Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012). As also demonstrated by 2015’s The Club, Larraín seems most assured when tackling the c