Smart audiences worldwide will devour this bold, wildly irreverent take on its insidious subjects.
After its festival debuts atVeniceand Telluride, the film will make its Netflix home screen bow on September 15.
Its as if someone commanded Larrain and Calderon to amaze and astonish, and they willingly obliged.
Jaime Vadell as Augusto Pinochet in ‘The Count’Venice Film Festival
The setting could scarcely be more remote, the characters less embraceable.
How many old vampires have you ever seen who needed a walker to get around?
But what memories they have!
But such are things with the titular El Conde (Jaime Vardera), the Count.
Larrain and Calderon have come up with the devilishly delicious idea of turning the fellow into a vampire.
And so it goes with the films tartly tasty take on the doings of the world.
