Post Mortem

Director: Pablo Larraín

2010 / 98min / 35mm

Mario Cornejo (Alfredo Castro) is an unassuming state employee who transcribes notes during autopsies. Furtive and lonely, he becomes obsessed with his neighbor, a dancehall performer (Antonia Zegers) who is involved with a group of left-wing activists. After the 1973 coup and Salvador Allende’s death, the dancer’s friends are hunted down, and Mario’s hospital is clogged with dissenters’ bodies. The violence soon grows in Mario’s psyche.

“With Post Mortem, Castro digs into what totalitarianism can activate in those apolitical subjects who are in the shadows of society. Castro gloriously plays the most dangerous and scariest psychopath of the history of Chile’s cinema, one that could easily be our most ordinary neighbor.”—Series curators Javier Guerrero and Juana Suárez

Introduction from series curator Javier Guerrero and post-screening conversation with Alfredo Castro on Friday, November 3rd at 5:30pm