Pablo Larraín
Fuga

LA RECENSIONE

Pablo Larrain, Chilean, is considered today one of the most important South American authors of the last decade, as well as one of the most original and appreciated filmmakers on the international scene.

Larrain debuted in 2006 with Fuga.

Eugenio Montalban, as a child, witnesses the murder of his sister taking place on a piano. Obsessed with this trauma, he will compose the Rapsodia Macabra, a work that will prove to be cursed…

This is the powerful incipit of Fuga.

Fuga, as often happens with a debut work, is a film that in some ways is raw, uneven.

Too dark and gloomy in the long first part, here and there almost horror in the setup and details of some sequences.

However, over the course of 110 minutes, the film "mounts" and assumes its own identity, its own coherence, and the changes in tone, hand in hand with the plot twists, will chip away and shape this crazy diamond. Yes, because it is a rough diamond, it is the first work of a great director,

Like a chest, it encloses precious gems that adorn and complete the film like the attire of a Maharaja.

Powerful sequences, rivers of blood (à la Shining) classical music heavy. Trauma, madness, iconoclastic fury (if music is a religion) the asylum, violence and the Fuga...and a mediocre musician who discovers some unfinished pages on a music score and wants at all costs to complete the macabre unfinished rhapsody…