It’s a pretty interesting time for Gael Garcia Bernal. The actor just signed up for Jonas Cuaron‘s “Zorro” reboot simply titled “Z.,” but he’s keeping one foot firmly planted in the arthouse world. The actor is headed to the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight where he’ll be walking down the red carpet for Pablo Larrain‘s “Neruda,” and the first international trailer has landed.
Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Moran, Michael Silva, and Pablo Derqui co-star in the movie, that finds Bernal not playing the famed poet, but rather, the police inspector who organized the manhunt to find the writer, who had become an enemy of the government, and gone into hiding. Here’s the official synopsis:
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. In congress, Senator Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betrayal and is swiftly impeached by President Videla. Police Prefect Óscar Peluchonneau is assigned to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to flee the country with his wife Delia del Carril, but they are forced into hiding. In the struggle with his nemesis Peluchonneau, Neruda sees an opportunity to reinvent himself. He plays with the Prefect, leaving clues designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse more dangerous, more intimate. In this story of persecution, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary legend.
There’s no U.S. distributor yet for the film, but if the reception on the Croisette is strong, that will likely change very soon. Check out the trailer above. [Variety]