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Cast
- Alfredo CastroRaúl Peralta
- Amparo NogueraCony
- Paola LattusPauli
- Héctor MoralesGoyo
- Elsa PobleteWilma
- Maité FernándezMaria
- Marcelo AlonsoRumano
- Marcial TagleVidrero
- Rodrigo PérezCNI Agent 1
- Enrique MaluendaTelevision Host
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
More than an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie, Tony Manero is an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity. - 88
New York Post
After winning raves at last year's New York Film Festival, Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, from Chile, is receiving a run here. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Larrain's (literally) dark, edgy movie is a precise artistic commentary on Augusto Pinochet's miserable regime. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
- 50
Variety
Balancing black humor against allegorical indictment of the Pinochet regime's oppression on narrow stack heels, striking, very offbeat period pic Tony Manero follows a psychotic petty criminal into the depths of his crazed obsession with John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever." - 50
Village Voice
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain's alarming Tony Manero--named not for its protagonist, but rather his ego-ideal, John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever"--is another study of a cinema-struck, solitary daydreamer, albeit a particularly stunted member of the genus.
