Pablo Larraín Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Producer , Director , Screenwriter more
Birth name Pablo Larraín Matte
Pseudo Pablo Larrain Matte
Nationality Chilean
Birth August 19, 1976

BIOGRAPHY
Son of a senator, former law professor and a future minister of state, Pablo Larraín has been immersed in politics from an early age. He quickly demonstrated an interest in images and communication, which he chose to study at the University of Santiago de Chile.

At age 27, he founded his own production company, Fabula , alongside his brother Juan de Dios Larraín . It was two years later that he finally went behind the camera with Fuga , the story of a mediocre musician who sets out to bring a climax to someone else’s unfinished composition. The film is already being noticed at several international festivals. His next two efforts, Tony Manero (2008) and Post Mortem (2010), which both feature Alfredo Castro , are still part of the world of entertainment but struggle more to find their audience.

After sketching an initial political reflection in Post Mortem , with the context of Pinochet’s coup d’état against President Allende, Pablo Larraín takes the subject head on in his fourth feature film No , inspired by real events. Gael Garcia Bernal is an advertiser approached to design the no campaign in the referendum on the presidency of the dictator Pinochet. Powerful in substance and light in form, the film is acclaimed throughout the world, from the Cannes Film Festival to the Oscars where it represented Chile in the Best Foreign Film category in 2013. With this film, he clearly opposes the politics in which his parents participated.

Member of the jury of the Venice Festival in 2013, under the presidency of Bernardo Bertolucci , Pablo Larraín took a short break of two years then returned with El Club , a twilight and disturbing closed session which won the Silver Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival He then shot two biopics on two world-famous figures: Neruda , presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, thanks to which he found Gael Garcia Bernal , and Jackie , an intimate biopic awarded at Venice in which Natalie Portman is confronted with the assassination of her husband, American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The two films will be released in France in January and February 2017.