Post Mortem (2012)
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Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Pablo Larrain's follow-up to Tony Manero is another unnerving look at one man's psychosis set against a country's political and moral turmoil -- here, a lonely morgue clerk whose infatuation with the burlesque dancer next door plays out against the violent chaos of Chile's 1973 military coup. -- (C) Kino Lorber
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Cast
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Alfredo Castro
Mario -
Antonia Zegers
Nancy, Nancy Puelma -
Jaime Vadell
Dr. Castillo -
Amparo Noguera
Sandra -
Marcelo Alonso
Víctor -
Marcial Tagle
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Unfortunately, the pacing also moves at a zombie shuffle, with shots held past the point of ennui to agony.
Top CriticMesmerizing, somehow otherworldly...
Mario's life spirals out of control in unexpected ways.
Post Mortem is - intentionally - not an engaging movie.
The first half's pretentiously doom-laden vibe suggests the film is slowly tunneling up its own rigor-mortised rectum. Patience, however, will be rewarded.
[A] grim, intense, mordantly comic little film...
A brilliantly macabre examination of evil seamlessly infecting those passionless souls indifferent to the threat of violent political transition.
Unfortunately, as beautifully presented as it is, and no matter how creepily authentic the autopsied and rotting cadavers look, Post Mortem is D.O.A. in the suspense department.
Larrain crafts Post Mortem as a slow, quiet character study, narrowing in on Castro in his home and office while the world outside descends into madness.
Post Mortem starts out at a crawl, but it gathers emotional momentum as it pushes forward.
The violence in Chile in 1973 when the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown seen through the eyes of a mortuary assistant.
A chilling exploration of the 1973 Pinochet coup soaked in metaphor but rooted in dreadful fact.
Pablo Larraín keeps the army's brutality off screen to amplify a sense of oppressive malevolence.
to film ekselissetai se ena eidos tromoy, me akoma frikiastikoterh thn adynamia soy na fantasteis kamia enallaktikoterh, protimoterh katalhksh
It's by no means an easy watch, but it's a rewarding and disturbing one.
An enigmatic but utterly distinctive and troubling film.
It's a bleak film that becomes positively numbing in its relentless pursuit of that perennial theme, the banality of evil.
Larraín keeps the action tightly focused on his small cast, closing in on a claustrophobic, macabre ending that works as a neat summary of all the deprivation and cruelty that has led up to it.
It's a frequent complaint that some movies are just too damn slow. And this Chilean film feels like it lasts for days.
Audience Reviews for Post Mortem
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Mario (Castro) has got feelings for his neighbor Nancy (Zegers) a dancer who loses her job (she's too skinny and not voluptuous her boss insists) at the sleazy nightclub. She is involved with a cell of left-wing activists including her father and her hunky lover, who's everything Mario isn't.
One day Mario misses the start of the military coup while he's taking a nap. He emerges onto a vacant street, he realize that something has been taking place. At his hospital, the bodies are compiling up and military personnel are ordering his boss Dr. to perform autopsy on the bodies, while Mario is dictated to type down cause of the death.
Film is typical sensational but not without dark-comedy. Moves with pace and subject. Handful of characters, they understand what the director wants from them. Amazingly very well-woven climax.
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Foreign Titles
- Santiago 73, Post Mortem (FR)
Of course, being noticed can sometimes be a hundred times worse because this is Santiago, Chile in 1973. Normally I would cheer on any display of leftist political expression on screen(Just one time, I would love to be at a meeting where everybody cheers Ho Chi Minh's name at a meeting). Here, I was just hoping everybody would lay low for their own safety, knowing that repression and murder are just right around the corner, even though it probably would not have saved their lives. These deaths are not the only ones foreshadowed, as Nancy's death is also foretold. For Mario, also, much of the political action happens just out of earshot which is indicated by the excellent sound engineering. Mario is just old fashioned, rejecting the politics and advances of his attractive colleague Sandra(Amparo Noguera) because she sleeps with other men.