''Tony Manero'' is a
2008
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
an film directed by
Pablo Larraín
Pablo Larraín Matte (; born 19 August 1976) is a Chilean filmmaker. He has directed nine feature films and co-directed one television series, including the Academy Award-nominated films ''No (2012 film), No'' (2012), ''Neruda (film), Neruda'' ...
about a 52-year-old man in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
in 1978 who is obsessed with
John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. He came to public attention during the 1970s, appearing on the television sitcom ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ''Carrie'' (19 ...
's character in ''
Saturday Night Fever
''Saturday Night Fever'' is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man from the Brooklyn borough of New York. Manero spends his ...
''. It won the top prize at the 2008
Torino Film Festival
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and was Chile's submission to the
81st Academy Awards
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for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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. In 2009 it won the Golden Tulip at the
Istanbul International Film Festival
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.
Cast
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Alfredo Castro - Raúl Peralta
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Paola Lattus
Paola Andrea Lattus Ramos (born 19 August 1980) is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress, known for appearing in films such as '' Tony Manero'' (2008) by Pablo Larraín and ''Optical Illusions'' (2009) by Cristián Jiménez.
Biography
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- Pauli
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Héctor Morales - Goyo
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Amparo Noguera
María Amparo Noguera Portales (born March 6, 1965), is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress.
Amparo is the daughter of the actor Héctor Noguera Illanes and Isidora Portales. Her grandfather, Héctor Noguera Prieto was descendant of ...
- Cony
* Elsa Poblete - Wilma
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Marcelo Alonso
Marcelo Alejandro Alonso Claro (born 19 March 1969) is a Chilean actor and theater director.
Alonso has a degree in Acting from the Theater Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. In 1994, he debuted in the ''Champaña'' t ...
- Rumano
* Maité Fernández - María
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Antonia Zegers
Antonia Zegers (born 29 June 1972) is a Chilean actress. She has an extensive career in cinema, with participation in some of the most awarded Chilean films such as '' Tony Manero'' (2008), ''Post mortem'' (2010), '' La vida de los peces'' (2010 ...
- Productora TV
* Marcial Tagle - Vidrero
* Rodrigo Pérez - Agente CNI 1
* Pancho González - Agente CNI 2
* Luis Uribe - Enrique
* Greta Nilsson - Cajera
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Enrique Maluenda - TV host
Reception
The film holds an 84% approval rating from the
review aggregator
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, based on 38 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Deliberately provocative, ''Tony Manero'' is as challenging and compelling as it is difficult to describe."
DVD releases
The film has been released on
DVD
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in several countries. Region 2 DVDs were released in 2009 by Network in the U.K. and Ripley's Home Video in Italy, and an unrated region 1 DVD was released in 2010 by
Kino International
The Kino International is a film theater in Berlin, built from 1961 to 1963. It is located on Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. It hosted premieres of the DEFA film studios until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today it is a protected ...
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See also
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Cinema of Chile
Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest survivin ...
References
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2008 films
2008 drama films
Films set in 1978
2000s serial killer films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films directed by Pablo Larraín
Chilean drama films
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