It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
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Movie2016·108 min
Neruda
Directed by Pablo Larraín
A drama film directed by Pablo Larraín.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 76%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
6.3/10
280 ratings
About Neruda
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Bittersweet (4 of 9)
- Intensity
- Moderate (4 of 9)
- Complexity
- Layered (6 of 9)
- Humor
- Light-touch (4 of 9)
- Scale
- Personal (4 of 9)
- Spirit
- Earnest (5 of 9)
- Texture
- Stylized, Contemplative
- Story Tags
- freedom rebellion, corruption power, identity self discovery, mid century, politics, historical event, international, small town, romantic partners, rivals, cold war espionage, outsider misfit, detective investigator, escape chase, cat and mouse, nonlinear flashback
