Sundance Kabuki Cinema
1881 Post St
415.346.3243
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Still from Tony Manero
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Sep 11, 2009 – Sep 17, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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The year is 1978 and Raúl — unnervingly oblivious to the Pinochet-backed terror around him, Santiago’s filth, and his needy girlfriend — is singularly obsessed with the just released Saturday Night Fever, and more specifically with its hero: Tony Manero. Raúl's neurotic quest to best a series of challengers on a televised impersonation contest quickly takes on a perversely comic dimension as he casually and dispassionately kills anyone who stands in the way of first place. At once a sideways commentary on the peculiar madness of Pinochet’s Chile and a damning criticism of cultural globalization, Pablo Larrain's highly stylized drama is a harrowing thrill ride.
