The Film: No

Adios Mr Pinochet

Sun 19 Apr 2015

Guildhall Theatre - Clubrooms

This film has a BFI Rating of 15
Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes - approximate, including any interval(s).

Age 15

About the Event

A screening of the film No, a 2012 Chilean drama film directed by Pablo Larraín.

The film is based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito, written by Antonio Skármeta. Mexican actor Gael García Bernal plays René, an in-demand advertising man working in Chile in the late 1980s. The historical moment the film captures is when advertising tactics came to be widely used in political campaigns. The campaign in question was the historic 1988 plebiscite of the Chilean citizenry over whether dictator Augusto Pinochet should stay in power for another eight years.