At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film
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… the kind of film that’s difficult to shake.
The Chilean director’s latest, El Conde (The Count), is “grotesque, it’s bloody, it’s absurd”, but he also hopes that it’s allegorical for the 1970s/’80s dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.