What a disgusting lead character!!! Wow! That was the best from this film; the form in which you start to hate that man inmediately

É um filme extremamente ambíguo, ao mesmo tempo que nos apiadamos o protagonista dos dez primeiros minutos sentimos O incrível que pulsa e repugnância por seus dados violentos e obsessivos, beirando o doentio... Um filme muito interessante com uma abordagem diferenciada, obsessão por um ídolo, o sonho de seguir uma profissão e agressão ganhando contornos realísticos...

Baffled by crtics positive reviews. A movie that goes nowhere with a main character who is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I usually like off-beat movies but this is a complete bore. I kept waiting for an 'aha' moment that never happens. Perhaps, if you have an interest in the attrocites of the Pinochet years in Chili, this will have some resonance... if you see this movie as an allegory. The main character is a sometimes violent, pathetic loser that other characters, for some unfathonable reason, put up with...even admire. In comparison to all of the movies I've seen over the years, this goes to the bottom of the dog pile.

Ruthless and unpleasant, there's yet a lot to admire in " Tony Manero", a unique and dark charachter study of a selfish person who takes the worst of himself out while the country is in crisis. Is umpredictable and powered by the special fuel provided by the cast, specially terrific Alfredo Castro and admirable Amparo Noguera. First part in Pablo Larraín's triology about dictatorship.

Es una película chilena muy interesante; tiene una trama extraña y las actuaciones son buenas; es una experiencia muy bizarra.

Raul, 1978'de, Cumartesi Gecesi Ateşi filmindeki Tony Manero karakterine takıntılı, obsesif, şiddet dolu 52 yaşındaki bir adam. Pinochet diktatörlüğü Şili'nin ahlaki değerlerini, kültürel kimliğini yok ederken, ülke de Amerikan kültürüne, yağmasına açılır. Raul, bu yeni Şili'deki Amerikayı temsil ediyor. Acımasız, dengesiz, şiddet dolu, tam bir hasta ruh. Filmdeki tv, imaj fetişizmi, özenti, başka biri olma arzusu da cabası.

Un thriller particular e inquietante.

Tony Manero is a movie about a man who is obsessed with John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever. Let’s be clear, I’m not saying he’s simply a guy who really likes to watch the movie, this man will do anything to be like Tony Manero. There’s no reason given for why he feels this way and no indication of what his life was like before Saturday Night Fever existed. When we meet him he’s already fully entrenched in his insanity. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to cling onto or enjoy in this movie. He is a despicable character, most of the people around him aren’t much better, and the entire tone of the film is dour and depressing. Every minute we see the star (Alfredo Castro) in this movie, he has a look of either frustration or boredom, which made sense because so did I. Every aspect of Tony Manero failed for me. It didn’t tell a compelling story, it had an undesirable cast of characters that I didn’t want to spend any time with, it had bland or downright non-acting, even the cinematography was terrible. In the climactic moment when the main character, Raul, gets to show off his talent impersonating Tony Manero it seemed tailor-made to perfectly nail the camerawork because you just match the shots in the original film. Instead we are treated to awkward over-the-shoulder shots, odd close-ups, and strange moving cameras around him. It was all the worst choices, and made it feel simply like the actor never got the dance down well enough to make it look right. After watching this movie, I felt like I needed to take a shower, it was so unpleasant and upsetting. I can’t fathom why anyone would want to see Tony Manero, but if it sounds interesting to you then by all means enjoy it, I will gladly never sit through it again.

An obsessive Tony Manero imitator carries out casual acts of murderous violence as he works on his dance routines during the oppressive Pinochet regime. Dark and edgy.

Extremely odd film is probably not for all tastes.

The coldness in this film is chilling. And once you get the political parallels, this film climbs up to a different level altogether. Alfredo Castro is bloody brilliant as the Saturday Night Fever obsessed protagonist! Pablo Larrain's first film(No and Post Morten being the other two) in his unplanned Pinochet Trilogy blows you away in a creepy way! Marvelous stuff!

Interesante punto de vista sobre la dictadura de Pinochet,desde la mente oscura de un asesino en serie que vive obsesionado con John Travolta.

This was a bizzare theme for a movie. Had it been a hollywood blockbuster i wouldn't have fancied it much, so why the fuck did i sit through it as a movie from Chile. I'm sure it was only on British 온라인카지노추천 because of one or two controversial scenes, with the filthiest being the main character shitting on his rival's white suit. I've never seen that before

Directed by Pablo Larraín (Fuga (2006) and Post Mortem (2010)), this is a Chilean film which manages to be dark, realistic, unsettling and with a streak of black humour throughout. It's good to see something this original and low-key but ultimately affecting come out of Chile, but it feels real and moving as well. Set in Santiago in 1978, around the time Chile was going through diplomatic problems with General Pinochet in Argentina, this has 52 year old loner Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro) who finds solace in watching Saturday Night Fever (1977), which is playing at the local picture house, and he becomes captivated with John Travolta's performance as Tony Manero, so much so, that he's bought a white suit just like the one in the film, and he's applied to go on a local Chilean 온라인카지노추천 talent show. Raúl lives in the same building as a dance hall ran by Cony (Amparo Noguera), who has a liking for Raúl, despite his violent mood swings and quest for perfecting the dancing as it was done in Saturday Night Fever, sometimes Raúl's violent tendencies come out in full swing, even leading in some cases to murdering people who have somehow rubbed him up the wrong way. Remember that Jasper Carrott joke about the Nutter On The Bus?? Well, Raúl Peralta is the kind of person he's was going on about, it's such an uncomfortable film to watch at times, but it's Castro's engaging, tragic performance which moves the film along, it's done with such honesty and realism, it's a wonder this wasn't a Dogme 95 film, (it's done like one), and it's shows the culture of a country we don't normally see on film.

Portait of a Chilean low-life obsessed with Saturday Night Fever, the tale takes some rather depressing turns

A totally bizarre film looking at politcal strife and obsession... Following Castro's Raul as he strives to become his favourite movie character (Tony Manero from Sat Night Fever) and the crimes tthat he commits in order to do this is a striking and uncomfortable experience. Driven by jealousy and obsession and the need to stay out of the way of Pinochet's regime, this is quite unlike anything else out there... The main issue is that there is not one likeable character to root for in all of this madness. Fascinating to be sure but a challenging watch....

A brutal and darkly comic character study, focusing on a sociopath's infatuation with Saturday Night Fever during a time of military dictatorship in Chile. In the lead role, Alfredo Castro is positively mesmerizing to watch.

Raul(Alfredo Castro) is a week early for the Tony Manero look-alike contest at the television studio because this week they are doing Chuck Norris. That's not the only sympton of his obsession as he also goes to see "Saturday Night Fever" every chance he can, plus putting on a show based on the movie. First, he needs a dance floor and even after finding the right material, he needs money. Otherwise, Raul watches an old woman get mugged, helps her home with her groceries, kills her, smokes a cigarette to calm his nerves, feeds the cat and steals her color television set. "Tony Manero" is a disturbing and sexually graphic character study. Raul is so single-minded(Which works against itself since it is difficult to gauge some of the other relationships in the movie at times) that he does not take notice of anything outside of his goal in Chile in 1980 where the police pay more attention to politics than actual crime. Despite Raul's psychosis and his appearing closer to a late model Al Pacino than a young John Travolta, he looks up to and identifies with Tony Manero, in seeing somebody who tries to escape his life of drudgery through dance.(If Raul is angry at "Grease," I don't want to think about how he would react to some of John Travolta's later movies.) In fact, "Tony Manero" and "Saturday Night Fever" both are similar in their critical attitudes about racism.

A movie about a serial killer who's obsessed with the film Saturday Night Fever. Yes, it is as creepy as it sounds.

Melange absurde et tres reussit entre la fan attitude pour la fievre du samedi soir et le passe traumatique du Chili de Pinoche. Pablo Larrain, un cineaste, un film et deja : un style.