1. NERUDA (Pablo Larraín): Ambition>execution, but a valid analysis may have required more pre-movie knowledge of Pablo Neruda on my part

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3. I respect how it thwarts the biopic narrative convention of realistically telling subject’s ENTIRE life story from A-Z in favor of…

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5. Yet the non-narrative, meandering storytelling’s commentary on Neruda won’t be understood by those unfamiliar with his life’s ‘narrative’

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7. Its most innovative idea: merging exhausted conventions of biopic genre with stylish tropes of film noir, a more underrepresented genre

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9. Ultimately, despite my tepid response here, I may now be even more curious to see Larraín’s other biopic currently in theaters (JACKIE).

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