Also: “El Conde,” Step Afrika!, and “Justified: City Primeval.”
that right-wing demagoguery is alive and well, one option, as an artist, is to render it undead. The Chilean director Pablo Larraín has dealt with Augusto Pinochet’s predations for more than a decade in films such as “No,” “The Club,” and “Post Mortem”; in his new movie,on Netflix, he turns the kleptocrat into a literal vampire. At first, the striking visuals and the aptness of the metaphor are irresistible.
The result is an intermittently fun night out that feels like it shouldn’t be. But lighter treatments of such horrors aren’t inherently doomed. One obvious rejoinder is, a comic skewering of Nazism made more potent by the fact that it was released in 1942. In the right hands, the gap between tragedy and farce can be razor-thin.Perelman Performing Arts Center, a.k.a.
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