Tony Manero

What do Pablo Larraín and Todd Philips have in common? They sure loved The King of Comedy enough to make similar films adapting the background of the social commentary. However, Larraín did it 11 years before Philips. Tony Manero is a bleak and jarring chilean film set…

Maevez

I think John Travolta should see this and face what he’s done

charlotte

Well now, I... um... wow. Here I was thinking I was set to experience a cute little Chilean comedy about some schlubby loner obsessed with Saturday Night Fever. The reality is... a little different. I'm not going to say anything to preserve the effect for those of you who…

Ronan Doyle

The World Is More Than Enough 2: Back To The 30 Countries (10/30 - Chile) "You're going to end up shitting out a bastard!" is perhaps the single nastiest line I've ever heard (or read) in any film I've ever seen. Marvellous! Having never seen Saturday Night Fever, I…

🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝

It's lunatic, outrageous, unpleasant. Pablo Larraín sends us on a journey with an unsympathetic John Travolta admirer and - more importantly - serial killer. The latter fact should be considered in passing, as should the Pinochet dictatorship that roars in the background,…

shookone

I'll elaborate on this later, but Pablo Larraín does everything right with Tony Manero that Todd Phillips did wrong with Joker. There's no posturing here, only a raw and brutal portrait of a lack of identity which is forged through the dream of being someone else,…

Chris W

as if Gaspar Noé made "Joker"

Remiga

Pablo Larraín hizo Joker 11 años antes y mejor que Todd Phillips. Raúl Peralta, nuestro protagonista, es un hombre maduro y silencioso con una enfermiza obsesión por Saturday Night Fever, esto lo lleva a imitar a Tony Manero -protagonista de la película de Travolta- en un…

Froylán Miranda

Alfredo Castro saliendo del Normandie con un rollo de Fiebre de Sábado por la Noche metido en la raja, luego de haber matado a todos por sacar su película favorita de la cartelera. literalmente yo

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