(Flash Review)
A Chilean police officer is assigned to track down influential poet Pablo Neruda as he has become a fugitive for joining the communist party and insulting political heads in the 1940s. Neruda is encouraging them to come and find him; for the attention to raise his own notoriety. The film has some decent nuggets of an officer hot on the trail of a fleeing fugitive and some subtle inner-character physiological depth. Yet it felt a bit stuffy and tedious even while also taking place in fancy locals in the first half and shifting gears and opening up with adventures into nature in a snowy climate. Will this desperate officer catch the slippery poet? Something different for those in the mood for a slightly contemplative foreign film.
A Chilean police officer is assigned to track down influential poet Pablo Neruda as he has become a fugitive for joining the communist party and insulting political heads in the 1940s. Neruda is encouraging them to come and find him; for the attention to raise his own notoriety. The film has some decent nuggets of an officer hot on the trail of a fleeing fugitive and some subtle inner-character physiological depth. Yet it felt a bit stuffy and tedious even while also taking place in fancy locals in the first half and shifting gears and opening up with adventures into nature in a snowy climate. Will this desperate officer catch the slippery poet? Something different for those in the mood for a slightly contemplative foreign film.