“El Conde”, interview with director Pablo Larraín and producer Juan de Dios Larraín

“Impunity made him eternal and that eternity is the vampire”, this is how director Pablo Larraín explain the genesis of his 10th film, “El Conde“, presented in competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. After Jackie and Spencer, also premiered in Venice (and Ema) Larraín goes back to depicting his Chile as the film imagines general and dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire in an existential crisis where he must decide if it is worth continuing his life as a vampire, drinking the blood of his victims, and punishing the world with his eternal evil. Through the language of satire and political farce, the film manages to not infuse empathy or compassion towards a dictator who never faced justice for his crimes. As producer Juan de Dios Larraín points out, they  hope the film will show people what kind of things should never happen again since it is an allegorical reminder of why history needs to repeat itself in order to remind us of how dangerous things can become.

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