Tony Manero (film)

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Tony Manero
Tony Manero film poster.jpg
Cannes film poster
Directed byPablo Larraín
Written by
CinematographySergio Armstrong
Edited byAndrea Chignoli
Music byJuan Cristóbal Meza
Production
companies
Fábula, Prodigital
Running time
97 minutes
CountryChile
LanguageSpanish

Tony Manero is a 2008 Chilean film directed by Pablo Larraín about a 52-year-old man in Santiago in 1978 who is obsessed with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever. It won the top prize at the 2008 Torino Film Festival and was Chile's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1][2] In 2009 it won the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul International Film Festival.

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Reception[]

The film holds an 84% approval rating from the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 38 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Deliberately provocative, Tony Manero is as challenging and compelling as it is difficult to describe."[3]

DVD releases[]

The film has been released on DVD in several countries. Region 2 DVDs were released in 2009 by Network in the U.K. and Ripley's Home Video in Italy, and an unrated region 1 DVD was released in 2010 by Kino International.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Latest Academy News". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 10 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Tony Manero fue seleccionada para postular por Chile a los Oscar". ADN Radio Chile. 26 September 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
  3. ^ Tony Manero at Rotten Tomatoes

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