Gael García Bernal Votes “NO” in MIFF 2013 Mega Hit

March 22, 2013

THE TRUE STORY OF A MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT SPARKED A REVOLUTION

Gael García Bernal

NO
a film by Pablo Larraín
Chile, USA | 117 min. | trailer
Spanish with English subtitles

 

Alfredo Castro | Gael García Bernal and Antonia Zegers

 

Gael García Bernal protagoniza primera de Chile, nominado al Oscar, drama, sobre el referéndum de 1988, relativa a largo plazo de Pinochet control sobre la presidencia y los métodos poco ortodoxos de la campaña "NO" SIDE. Basado en la obra de Antonio Skármeta Plebiscito de El, René Bernal interpreta a Saavedra como un pez fuera del agua a hombre, que termina separando los mares. Las atrocidades cometidas bajo Pinochet fueron innumerables, pero concibiendo una serie aparentemente superficial de los anuncios de televisión llenos de colores brillantes, canciones, bailes y positividad over-the-top, Saavedra encuentra un camino más allá de miedo de la gente y la resignación, hacia un cambio político profundo.

Gael García Bernal stars in Chile's first Oscar-nominated drama, about the 1988 referendum on Pinochet's long-term grip on the presidency and the unorthodox methods of the “NO” side's ad campaign. Based on Antonio Skármeta’s play El Plebiscito, Bernal plays René Saavedra as a fish out of water ad man, who ends up parting the seas. The atrocities committed under Pinochet were innumerable, but by conceiving an apparently superficial series of TV ads filled with bright colors, song, dance and over-the-top positivity, Saavedra finds a way past people’s fear and resignation, toward profound political change.

 

 

Named the top film in indieWIRE's list of "The Best Indie Movies of 2013 So Far"

 

 

"NO" now screening at MDC's Tower Theater

 

Fri, Mar 22 at 6:35, 9:10 PM
Sat, Mar 23 at 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 PM
Sun, Mar 24 at 2:00, 4:40, 7:15 PM

Tue, Mar 26 at 3:25, 6:35, 9:10 PM
Wed, Mar 27 at 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 PM
Thu, Mar 28 at 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 PM