An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
19 December 1955, Recoleta, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
26 September 1942, Valladolid, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
30 November 1978, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
March 23, 1961 in Concepción, Bío Bío, Chile
August 29, 2017
What could be a simple, suspenseful hunt for impeached Senator Neruda becomes, in [director Pable] Larraín's artful film, a salute to Neruda's audacious defiance.March 09, 2017
"Neruda" is a delightful mishmash of two disparate genres: the biopic and film noir.January 19, 2017
A sumptuous puzzle of a movie that takes a turbulent period in the life of the Chilean poet and politician and turns it into a fable about fame and the power of words.April 20, 2017
Sweeping, poignant, bizarre, funny and unique.January 11, 2017
This is a serious movie that often feels playful, one that has metafictional ambitions but wears them lightly. You can surrender to the enjoyment of the chase at the film's heart, while not losing sight of Larraín's serious aims.June 29, 2017
A brisk biographical chase film about the communist Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, by the dazzling Chilean director Pablo Larraín.June 12, 2017
"Neruda" presents an interesting and imaginative way to consider the person - literary artist, ambassador, friend of Picasso and Nobel Prize winner - that Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was.August 17, 2017
From writer to writer, Guillermo Calderón did Neruda proud with his sleight of plot whimsy and powerful dialogue.August 26, 2017
Pablo Larrain takes an enjoyably unconventional approach to this engaging portrait of Chilean politician-poet Pablo Neruda.May 31, 2017
Visually, however, Neruda is a transfixing triumph, bending and erasing conventional cinema boundaries with dazzling ease.March 16, 2017
"Neruda" is a dream of Chile, of what it was and might have been, brought to the screen by a master dreamer.December 30, 2016
Calderon and Larrain have taken great dramatic license with Neruda's story, and the payoff is more than worth the risk.