Post Mortem (2010 film)

Post Mortem is a 2010 Chilean film directed by Pablo Larran and set during the 1973 military coup that overthrew former President Salvador Allende, inaugurating the 17year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The film competed in the 67th Venice International Film Festival, Antofagasta Film Festival, Havana Film Festival and the Guadalajara International Film Festival. The films main character Mario Cornejo is based on a real person with the same name.

The film has been well received by the critics and considered further proof of Larrans talent, previously noted in Tony Manero. It received four stars from both The Guardian, which called it an eerie portrait of a disturbing time and Time Out, which praised the humorously unconventional framings, expressively washedout colour tones and mysterious lowkey performances that bring together human comedy and historical tragedy to unique, and surprisingly emotional, effect.. The New York Times critic A. O. Scott wrote that the achievement of Post Mortem is to take rigorous and unsentimental measure of the unpleasantness. Post Mortem has also been popular on the Rotten Tomatoes public film reviews website, where it currently as at February 2013 has an 84 approval rate

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