‘Spencer’ Director Pablo Larraín Endorses Chilean Oscar Entry ‘White on White’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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“Spencer” director Pablo Larraín has thrown his weight behind Chilean Oscar entry “White on White” (“Blanco en Blanco”), hailing it as a “really interesting, strange and highly violent film.” “Whit…

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Larraín was once a student of Castro’s, a notable theater director who has acted in six of Larraín’s nine films, starring in four: “Tony Manero,” Larrain’s 2008 breakout; 2010’s “Post Mortem”; 2012’s Oscar-nominated “No,” playing opposite Gael García Bernal; and 2015 Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” which persuaded Natalie Portman to play the lead in “Jackie.”

Castro stars as a portrait photographer, Pedro, who is summoned to the rambling mansion of a powerful but ever absent landowner, Mr. Porter, to immortalize his wedding. Asked by Larraín, how he came to think of using the figure of a photographer to capture a key social and political moment in Chile and Latin America’s history, Court explains in the conversation that he was struck by photographs of the Selknam massacre, perpetrated in 1886 by Julius Popper, Tierra del Fuego’s most powerful landowner, which left 78 Selknam tribes people dead.

It also allowed for a “triple game,” playing off the vision of his camera, the photographer’s camera and the audience gaze to comment on “how we live horror and its aesthetic rendering, the complicity involved in the images and our vision.”

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