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The Invented Biography

2018 · 95 min

A quiet, slippery essay-film that blurs fact and fiction, drifting through places and voices like a half-remembered dream.

Directed by
Nicolás Lasnibat
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Amparo Noguera, Anne Alvaro, Carla Rippey
Overview
This film follows Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a great part of his biography. The director searches for him in places where his stories and novels occur, meeting with real and imaginary characters, in a territory where reality and fiction have a diffuse frontier. A new form of literary biopic, where the writer and his character turn into one and only person.

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Directed by
Nicolás Lasnibat
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Amparo Noguera, Anne Alvaro, Carla Rippey
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • memory
    • art
    • isolation
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Nicolás Lasnibat
    Written by
    Nicolás Lasnibat
    Starring
    Amparo Noguera, Anne Alvaro, Carla Rippey, Juan Pascoe
    Music
    Rodolphe Burger
    Cinematography
    Gordon Spooner
    Runtime
    95 min
    Country
    Chile, France, Mexico
    Languages
    French, Spanish

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