Latin American Film Festival - Post Mortem

[Mario Boido]

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for a screening of Post Mortem, part of the 2020 Latin American Film Festival, organized by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Kitchener Public Library and the Spanish Film Club by Pragda.

Film: Post Mortem
When: Monday, March 9 at 6:30pm
Where: KPL Main branch, 85 Queen St, Kitchener

Free admission!

Watch the trailer here.<https://youtu.be/JK0zNJTq4uc>


Synopsis: Mario Cornejo is going about his daily business of writing autopsy reports at the military hospital in Santiago, when the Pinochet coup d´état shakes this heretofore apolitical character out of his state of apathy. This passionately executed film by Pablo Larraín has met with brilliant reviews, competing at the Venice Film Festival and nabbing second place at the Havana Film Festival’s Coral Awards. Post Mortem is neither a reconstruction of the Pinochet days, nor an angry denunciation of the period. Instead, Larraín offers a borderline-surreal –Lynchian–black comedy to show, among other things, how easy it is for ordinary people to sleepwalk into a climate of atrocity, either as victims, collaborators, or as both.



Spanish with English subtitles, 98 min.


Learn more about the film<https://pragda.com/film/post-mortem/>

Learn more about the Festival<https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/news/latin-american-film-festival>

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,
Mario



Mario Boido, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
President, Canadian Association of Hispanists
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519.888.4567 ext 35621

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