Ended on 7/31/2009
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TONY MANERO -
(unrated)
2008 - Chile - Spanish (with English subtitles) - 98 minutes - Lorber HT Digital
Directed by: Pablo Larrain
Featuring: Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales, Amparo Noguera, Elsa Poblete
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showtimes and tickets
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 *Chile's Official Selection for Academy Awards*
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago. Each weekend, Raúl Peralta and his friends - a devoted group of dancers - gather in a small bar and act out their favorite scenes from Saturday Night Fever. Raúl longs to become a showbiz superstar, and when the national television announces a Tony Manero impersonating contest it seems like he may finally have a shot at living his dreams. But as Raúl is driven to commit a series of crimes and thefts in order to reproduce his matinee idol's persona, his dancing partners (also underground resistance fighters who rail against the regime) are persecuted by the secret police.
-Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Director's Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION - New York, London, Turin Film Festivals
"Wonderfully Bizarre!"
London Times
"Nothing I've seen in Cannes has possessed and disturbed me quite as much as the Directors' Fortnight entry TONY MANERO...a candidate for international cult status."
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
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Users Comments
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by : Francia |
Date Added: 4/7/2009 11:11:07 PM  report this post |
can't wait to see this amazing film ..
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by : Rooting |
Date Added: 5/7/2009 12:09:05 PM report this post |
Hey Dominic, as opposed to the pretentious, fake, pseudo-intellectual film scene YOU frequent?
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by : Dominic |
Date Added: 6/21/2009 2:31:58 PMreport this post |
Stunning. Disturbing, bizarre and heartbreaking. Makes the US film scene look so stale and safe.
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by : Ellen |
Date Added: 6/29/2009 6:56:29 PMreport this post |
Hmmm, We Brooklynites, are eager to see this film. Willit run at the very least in limited engagement in NY?
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by : Jay P |
Date Added: 7/15/2009 12:15:36 PMreport this post |
Ircredible use of metaphor. A tin-pot Chilean dictator dancing to cheap American culture, and murdering anyone who looks sideways at him. Just like Pinocet.
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by : blah blah head |
Date Added: 7/18/2009 12:52:44 AMreport this post |
havnt seen it
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by : Tony is Maneiro |
Date Added: 9/7/2009 11:06:21 AMreport this post |
I was wondering how long this feature will be playing at Cinema Village... I can't go this week and am hoping it will be extended thru next week at least. It looks really amazing!
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by : Michael Reyes |
Date Added: 12/7/2009 10:41:38 AMreport this post |
I will not attempt to watch this film because although my spanish pedestrian like I will be too distracted w/subtitles!!!If it was dubbed it would work.
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by : Michael Reyes |
Date Added: 12/7/2009 10:47:50 AMreport this post |
I will not attempt to watch this film because although my spanish is pedestrian like I will be too distracted w/subtitles!!!If it was dubbed it would work.
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