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A group of defrocked priests and a caretaker nun live together in an unexceptional seaside town. Vowing silence outside their secretive private residence, they spend their time in a host of activities, including gambling on greyhound races. When a new resident arrives, one of his victims follows, leading to a first-act suicide that will prefigure the violent acts to come. The latest and most oblique of Pablo LarraÃn’s examinations of the Pinochet years (see also Tony Manero, NO), The Club points to the Chilean regime’s practice of stealing children, while also setting its sights on the Catholic Church’s uneasy relationship with homosexuality, and its criminal complicity in a number of high profile sexual-abuse cases. Filmed by the Chilean auteur in his familiar dirty aesthetic, an art that contains significant surface streaking and lens flaring, this Berlin Film Festival prizewinner is an overwhelmingly atmospheric and deeply affecting tale of psychic suppression.
Director Pablo LarraÃn 2015 Chile 97 minutes Unrated DCP
