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Chilean director Pablo Larrain has made several Oscar nominated films including Jackie (2016), which imagines a chapter in the life of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Spencer (2021), a biopic of the life of Princess Diana, and he co-produced Sebastian Lello's, A Fantastic Woman, which did win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

His latest film, El Conde, recently released on Netflix, is a dark, comic, art-house horror, which portrays the former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet as a vampire.

He spoke to the 大象传媒's Alan Little and explains why he spent years imagining Pinochet as a vampire.

"Pinochet was a man that lived and died in complete impunity. That impunity, somehow, made him eternal in our society, we were never able to really put him on trial, to judge him, so his figure became permanent...the idea of a vampire, a person who remains alive was a very interesting take for a story like this," says Larrain.

(Photo: Director Pablo Larrain poses with the Award for Best Screenplay for the movie El Conde at the 80th Venice Film Festival. Credit: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)

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