Cinehassee: Neruda

WHAT: 1^st Cinehassee Tallahassee Hispanic Film Festival: Neruda

WHEN: October 3 2017-  at 7pm

WHERE: Askew Student Life Cinema(ASLC),942 Learning Way, Tallahassee, FL 32304

ABOUT: The Hispanic Graduate Student Association (HiGSA) is proud to present Cinehassee, a Hispanic Film Festival that celebrates diversity so valuable in any democratic society. Cinehassee contributes to foster this value by exposing topics, problems, ideas and realities that are different from what many citizens live today in the day to day basis; in this opportunity to celebrate the Hispanic Heritage month. All events are free to the general public, and the first 25 first attendees get free popcorn.

NERUDA

Pablo Larraín / Argentina, Chile, France, Spain / 107 min / 2016 / Spanish with English subtitles

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. In congress, Senator Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached by President Gonzalez Videla. Police Prefect Oscar Peluchonneau is assigned to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to flee the country with his wife, Delia del Carril, but they are forced into hiding. Neruda, however, sees this struggle with his nemesis Peluchonneau as an opportunity to reinvent himself. He plays with the inspector, leaving clues designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse more dangerous, more intimate. In this story of a persecuted poet and his implacable adversary, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary legend. The film casts the darkness of Chile’s later, bloodier period of military rule, and the political uncertainties of the Latin America’s present.