Tony Manero

The Dictator and the Disco King

OVER the years “Saturday Night Fever” has meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But the Chilean director Pablo Larraín is probably the first to have been inspired to use that 1970s disco drama as a device to dissect the abusive dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, as he does in his new film, “Tony Manero.”
Tony Manero, of course, is the name of the character John Travolta played in “Saturday Night Fever.” “Tony Manero” the movie, which opened in New York on Friday, is about a week in the life of Raúl Peralta, a dancer in a run-down cabaret who embarks on a relentless quest to win a Travolta look-alike contest broadcast by a Chilean television show at the height of the “Saturday Night Fever” craze. [...]

di Larry Rohter, articolo completo (6055 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 luglio 2009