Post Mortem
Post Mortem
Santiago, 1973. Mario Cornejo works at a morgue, typing out reports on autopsies performed by the coroners. During the military coup, he gets involved in a love affair with a dancer from the cabaret Bim Bam Bum.
3.5 out of 5 based on 11 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Pablo Larraín |
| Cast |
Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Jaime Vadell Marcelo Alonso |
| Studio |
Network |
| Release Date |
September 2011 |
| Running Time |
98 mins |
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Santiago, 1973. Mario Cornejo works at a morgue, typing out reports on autopsies performed by the coroners. During the military coup, he gets involved in a love affair with a dancer from the cabaret Bim Bam Bum.
Reviews
Empire Magazine
Philip Wilding
“Larraín lets the action happen off camera, as if a silent witness to the torment, the sound of horror building up off screen.”
13/09/2011
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The Evening Standard
Charlotte O'Sullivan
“If you're fascinated by the fall of Salvador Allende the wounded bodies on display will almost certainly break your heart.”
09/09/2011
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“There is a Satanic form of anti-eroticism in this horror.”
08/09/2011
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The Scotsman
Alistair Harkness
“It's by no means an easy watch, but it's a rewarding and disturbing one”
10/09/2011
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Total Film
Tom Dawson
“Building to a horrifying Vanishing-style conclusion, Larrain lays bare a society poisoned by violence.”
31/08/2011
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Sight & Sound
Jonathan Romney
“The film’s stylisation; it may be in part a brilliant response to budget limitations, but it works to extraordinary effect, the action seeming to take place in an uncannily still dream world.”
13/09/2011
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The Independent on Sunday
Jonathan Romney
“Larrain offers a borderline-surreal – dare I say, Lynchian – black cartoon to show, among other things, how easy it is for ordinary people to sleepwalk into the climate of atrocity, either as victims or collaborators.”
11/09/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
“A bold, creepy parable”
09/09/2011
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The Times
Kevin Maher
“... smartly shot and coolly constructed, but the foregrounding of metaphor and polemic over flesh and blood storytelling becomes alienating. ”
09/09/2011
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“The film rather wallows in its gloominess.”
11/09/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
“It's a bleak film that becomes positively numbing in its relentless pursuit of that perennial theme, the banality of evil.”
11/09/2011
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