The Poetical Is Political: Neruda

NerudaDirected by Pablo LarraínOpens December 16
A deconstructed biopic that takes the form of a cat-and-mouse metafiction, the Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s Neruda, which follows the titular poet-senator during his 1948 flight into exile, nonetheless doesn’t feel the least bit stuffy, moving at a dizzying pace and showing, if anything, a bit too much intoxication with its own freewheeling inventions. The film gets underway as Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), a prou