Pablo Larraín’s string of mostly 20th century biographical dramas hits a pinnacle of audacious brilliance with El Conde (The Count), a madly inspired reinvention of events embedded in the not…
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The setting could scarcely be more remote, the characters less embraceable. On the forbiddingly cold southern tip of Chile lives a small group of history’s cast-offs, awful people who, to the country’s long misfortune, not only ruled but made sure that the nation remained a backwater, a place where no one would want to visit or willingly live if they could help it.
But such are things with the titular El Conde , the Count. This is a fellow who has outlived all his enemies and killed many of them, has had a checkered career but always prevailed. Larraín and Calderón have come up with the devilishly delicious idea of turning the fellow into a vampire.
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