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Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
CHILE (2012) • in Spanish

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Club reactions by city:

moderated by Matthew Bernstein
with guest Curt Holman of Creative Loafing

Thank you for showing a unique foreign film! THIS is why I joined Cinema Club.

Everything ARGO should have been--intense, intelligent and interesting.

Excellent movie in all respects, and it caused me to have such an interesting take on Chilean culture and history.

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moderated by Mike Budd
with guest Michael Horswell

It was an excellent film that tells us that with determination and dedication people are able to make change.

Insightful, interesting and historically correct.

Interesting but not that entertaining.

moderated by Gilberto Blasini

This movie may be slow, but it is very well done. The way the film was filmed, along with the acting was very realistic.

Thank you for screening this film. I've been eager to see it since I read about it. Si to NO! Eventually the will of the people--however suppressed--wins out.

Excellent film, a bit too long but tells a very topical, compelling story about marketing and politics.

moderated by Michael Kerbel
with guest Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times & New York Post Film Critic

Very smart film about oppositional politics in a modern and consumerist age; about compromises between form and content, past and present - necessary if politics are to be effective.

Loved the documentary style of filming. Great performance by Bernal.

Intelligent film, smartly acted, cast and paced.

moderated by Peter L. Stein
with guest Marilyn Fabe

Great film - the camera work let me feel like I was THERE!

Yeah on NO - Excellent - we need one of these films made for an American election: It all boils down to perception, nothing more. Don Draper in Chile.

The film shows how good advertising, selling a product, changed the politics of Chile, but ends with showing how cheesy and manipulative advertising can be. It's a paradox we still live with.

moderated by Diane Carson
with guest Dr. Olga Arbelaez

Well done. Gripping. Gael Garcia Bernal’s acting is superb. An important movie for Chile to document independence/freedom.

I thought many of the cuts (within some conversations, different settings) were very good. They set atmosphere very well, built suspense slowly but surely. May use this film with university students to engender ‘freedom of expression’ discussion.

A Riveting story, well told. I loved it. ...I think a general audience may get lost in the complicated telling.

moderated by David Sterritt
with guest Rick Rockwell or American University

Mad Men meets The Candidate meets 80s kitsch.

Rough, but efective - well done overall. I was delighted to see a movie from South America that left me with a feeling of hopefull empowerment.

"Shows how media and PR can be forces for good, positive change."