El Conde - 2023 - 7/10
The adult children gather like vultures once they hear dear papa is ready to die.
Where is the money? Where are the bonds, the documents, the deeds, the wealth?
He doesn’t remember. He’s tired of living, He’s old. 250 years old, perhaps more.
French born Claude Pinochet would eventually become Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile.
That was before the overthrow. Now he lives in what appears to be an abandoned detention camp.
Very funny horror film, chock full of history, satire, and the perfidiousness of our species.
Arch from beginning to end. Perhaps too arthouse for the hoi polloi.
This assumes one knows “something” about history: French, Chilean, English.