Writer-director Felipe Gálvez emerges as a startling new voice in Latin American cinema with this searing revisionist western. Capturing majestic landscapes with a painterly eye, Chile’s official Oscar® entry is a singularly immersive reckoning with national myth-making and its attendant violence.

Delving into the myth of literary giant Pablo Neruda, Pablo Larraín fashions a clever subversion of the biographical genre. A whirlwind of meta-cinema starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Larraín’s “anti-biopic” inhabits the poet’s idiosyncratic universe to become a truly Nerudian film.