Featuring the acclaimed Gael Garcia Bernal, “Neruda” tells the story about Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, and the persecution he suffered from an emerging dictatorship in his home country in the late 1940s.
WHAT: 1st 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.
Free Admission and open to the public, first 25 attendees get a free popcorn
2017/10/03 - 2017/10/03
Askew Student Life Center
942 Learning Way, Tallahassee, FL 32306
The Student Life Cinema is located in the Askew Student Life Center at 942 Learning Way, in the southwest corner of the Florida State University campus. Parking is available on the east side of Woodward Ave, and in Parking Garage #2 near the Park Ave. Diner.