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“Captain America: Civil War” star Daniel Brühl has boarded Lone Scherfig’s upcoming feature “The Movie Teller,” Variety can reveal.

The BAFTA-nominated actor, who recently reprised his Marvel role in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and has appeared in features including “Rush” and “Inglourious Basterds,” will star alongside Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) and Antonio de la Torre (“Marshland”) in the film.

Embankment are executive producing the film and have launched worlwide sales, co-repping Latin American rights with Latido Films. A Contracorriente Films’ Adolfo Blanco (“The Bookshop”), Selenium Films’ Vincent Juillerat and Andres Mardones of Al Tiro Films are producing.

Directed by BAFTA nominee Scherfig (“An Education”), “The Movie Teller” sees Brühl star as Nansen, a European outsider who, via his restraint and diplomacy, earns the respect of the families he encounters at a Chilean mine before embarking on a relationship with a local woman, María Magnolia (played by Bejo).

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After world premiering in the main competition at Karlovy Vary, the first Chilean film ever to receive that honor, “The Man of the Future” from Felipe Ríos has released a trailer ahead of its domestic premiere at next month’s Sanfic Festival in Santiago, Chile.

Set primarily on the highways and in truck stops along the seemingly endless ranges of Chile’s southern Andes, Rios’ road film tracks an estranged father and daughter who end up on the same lonely road headed south. Michelson heads south on the last trip before being let go by his employer, and picks up a curious young hitchhiker along the way. At the same time, Elena hitches a ride from another driver to get to a boxing competition in a remote Patagonia town.

With a little help, Elena gets the chance to reach out to her father and the unplanned encounter offers the opportunity of reconciliation,...

Chilean filmmaker Felipe Ríos’ “The Man of the Future” holds the unique distinction of being the only film from his country to participate in the main competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where it world premiered on Wednesday evening.

Set on the highways of the the seemingly endless ranges of Chile’s southern Andes, Ríos’ road film tracks an estranged father and daughter who end up on the same lonely road south, he a truckdriver and she a hitchhiker in separate rigs.

The unplanned encounter offers the opportunity of reconciliation, and possibly a path to a shared future. The minimalist film set in anything-but minimal surroundings also proved a chance for Ríos to face his own troubled relationship with his father.

“The Man of the Future” is produced by Chile’s Quijote Films and co-producers Sagrado Cine and La Unión de los Ríos. Celebrated Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Fadel, a two-time...

The Club (El Club) Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for  Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director:  Pablo Larraín Written by:  Pablo Larraín, Guillermo Calderón Cast: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Marcelo Alonso, José Soza, Francisco Reyes Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 1/27/16 Opens:  February 5, 2016 If you have ever been a New York City teacher in the public school system, you will be familiar with the now defunct rubber room.  This was a place that functioned as a halfway house, as it were, for tenured teachers who had been brought up on charges by their principals.  They were  [ Read More ]

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Living Under Your Spotlight: Larrain Paints it Black with Catholic Crisis Comedy

For his first film following the finale of his narrative trilogy documenting the virulence of the Pinochet dictatorship (Tony Manero; Post Mortem; No), Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain returns with a macabre tale of sacerdotal infringements within the Catholic Church in the ludicrous, perverse, and vibrantly entertaining The Club. Starring his usual collaborator, Alfredo Castro, Larrain, along with screenwriters Daniel Villalobos and Guillermo Calderon (2011’s Violeta Went to Heaven) concoct a bizarre tale concerning a cloister of ex-Catholic priests holed up within the confines of an isolated seaside monastery. Relocated out of circulation as punishment by the church, the disparate men languish in all the comforts of an unassuming retirement home community on the church’s dime.

On the coastal extremity of Chile, four men (Alfredo Castro; Jaime Vadell; Alejandro Goic; Alejandro Sieveking) reside together in a home under...

When Chilean director Pablo Larraín showed up at this year’s Berlin Film Festival with “The Club,” no one knew quite what to expect. Indeed, details of the film’s very existence had been kept quite fairly quiet — but the picture turned out to be a resounding success. It took home of the Silver Bear in Berlin, earned more prizes on the festival circuit, was selected as Chile’s Oscar contender, and recently landed a Golden Globe nomination. Now the picture is headed to cinemas, and the first trailer has arrived. Starring Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Marcelo Alonso, José Soza, and Francisco Reyes, the film is set in a remote seaside town where priests have been exiled to atone for their sins. But soon, they must face an incursion from the outside world. Here’s the official synopsis: In a secluded house...

The Club

Written by Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Larraín and Daniel Villalobos

Directed by Pablo Larraín

Chile, 2015

Director Pablo Larraín is known for his extremely fascinating social commentaries about his native Chile. Most famously, he tackled the Pinochet regime and its legacy with his trilogy comprising Tony Manero, Post-Mortem­ and ­No. With The Club, Larraín looks at Catholicism, another major Chilean institution, and the abuses of power that can occur within the priesthood. Interestingly, he doesn’t judge the actions of the characters but rather presents a portrait of a group of devastatingly corrupt and flawed human beings against a misty, almost dreamlike, backdrop. This effect allows a chance to look past the dark and troubling reality of these men’s lives and possibly witness a glimmer of something redeemable, even if that is just for one brief moment.

In a small Chilean town, unbeknownst to the townsfolk, disgraced priests are...