Fuga (film)
Fuga is a 2006 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Pablo Larraín.[1] It is Larraín's directing debut.[2]
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| Directed by | Pablo Larraín |
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| Starring | Benjamín Vicuña Gastón Pauls Alfredo Castro |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Countries | Chile Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Plot
The story revolves around Eliseo Montalbán (Benjamín Vicuña), who as a child witnesses his sister's rape and murder on a piano while a musical piece is incidentally composed. This event causes him to grow up as a prodigy in music with an obsessive and disturbed personality, especially with the musical piece, which he later believes carries the death. Eventually, Eliseo composes a Rhapsody, his masterpiece. But when it is premiered, his love interest, the pianist Georgina (Francisca Imboden), dies moments after beginning to perform it in front of a packed Santiago Municipal Theater. This causes intense mental torment, and his father locks him up in a mental institution, where Eliseo falls into clandestinity and obscurity.
As a tormented Eliseo remains in hiding after escaping the mental institution, Ricardo Coppa (Gastón Pauls) and a group of musicians try to recover Montalbán's musical piece and make it their own, without realizing they are in danger.
Cast
- Benjamín Vicuña as Eliseo Montalbán
- Gastón Pauls as Ricardo Coppa
- Francisca Imboden as Georgina
- María Izquierdo as Madre de Eliseo
- Willy Semler as Padre de Eliseo
- Héctor Noguera as Klaus Roth
- Alfredo Castro as Claudio
- Alejandro Trejo as Pacian
- Paulina Urrutia as Macarena
References
- "Fuga: ¿Qué hay detrás del espectáculo?".
- Chang, Justin (2016-05-19). "Cannes: Pablo Larraín takes the road less traveled with 'Neruda'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
