Tony Manero

Somebody in Chile Worships the Disco-Era Travolta

Talk about self-delusion! The grotesque spectacle of a 52-year-old thug with a graying pompadour, stripped to his briefs in front of a mirror gracelessly imitating John Travolta’s dance moves from “Saturday Night Fever,” haunts Pablo Larraín’s film “Tony Manero” like a nightmare apparition.
During his repeated visits to the nearly empty theater showing the film in Santiago, Chile, this obsessed fan, Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro), a petty criminal who lives on the outskirts of the city, mouths the dialogue spoken by Mr. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4233 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 luglio 2009