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Showing 14 Critic Reviews
Apr 8, 2012
90
Pablo Larrain's breathtaking visual command makes for enthralling viewing in Post Mortem, a rigorous, formally controlled yet emotionally gripping drama set during Chile's bloody 1973 military coup.
By Jay Weissberg
FULL REVIEW Apr 9, 2012
83
Post Mortem portrays the specter of dictatorship through the lens of one man's private hell.
Apr 11, 2012
83
Larrain crafts Post Mortem as a slow, quiet character study, narrowing in on Castro in his home and office while the world outside descends into madness.
Apr 8, 2012
80
A sometimes shocking, often moving journey through a blood-stained corner of the past. Like Costa Gavras's "Missing" through the eyes of an everyday Chilean.
By Philip Wilding
FULL REVIEW Apr 8, 2012
80
With its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.
Apr 11, 2012
75
Rather than rushing to determine the cause of death – of love, or of a country -- it stubbornly keeps listening for a heartbeat, even though there may not be one.
Apr 13, 2012
75
Pablo Larraín and Alfredo Castro - the director and star, respectively, of the acclaimed Chilean black comedy "Tony Manero" (2008) - reunite in the chilling Post Mortem.
By Deborah Young
FULL REVIEW Apr 10, 2012
70
Often drolly, coolly morbid, Post Mortem also operates just as effectively in a more nakedly direct register.
