In 1948, Communist Party of Chile Senator, the poet Pablo Neruda and his wife went on the run after the Chilean Government issued an order for his arrest; this movie injects into the history a Government-hired detective whose success or failure in turning up Neruda means the difference between him being forgotten - a failed everyman antagonist - or remembered for eternity - a hero protagonist - an analogy that allows the movie to demonstrate the rousing nature of Neruda's poetry and politics in (a beautifully realised) Chile of the times, but sadly the movie tries for epic and ends up feeling fleeting with its split narrative.
★★★☆☆
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