Ela Bittencourt
"I was challenging myself with the idea of not just depicting a certain fictional reality, but trying to depict its different levels, in a more subconscious, dreamlike way. At the same time, I didn’t want to simply have dream sequences, but to give the whole film a different quality."
One couldn’t ask for a more Nietzschean antihero than Faust, the intellectual uber-mensch who, his carnal desire awakened, shakes off his guilt and affirms his ego. Faust’s character is so unbound that it is at times confounding.
The toxicity of an entire political system, and of utopias, in general, is condensed into a single image: a black mongrel.
Post Mortem is only Larraín’s second feature, but he has already proven a distinct style—an unmistakable deadpan—and an interest in political and personal utopias.
Noise, Carrière 250 Meters, ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
The Open Sky, The Cultivation of the Invisible Flower, Soul Searching