In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Direction
Larraín's static frames trap you like history itself.
Acting
Castro's hollow-eyed obsession is deeply unnerving.
Production
Morgue becomes character—sterile, bureaucratic, obscene.
Director
Pablo Larraín
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Larraín shot this in the actual morgue where bodies were processed during the 1973 coup. The institutional banality of evil, literally built in.
Mario's refusal to stop working during the coup mirrors how Chilean institutions enabled Pinochet's regime through complicit normalcy. His love story is denial in real time.
MX
CL
