Gabriel Garcia Bernal is truly an international Latino film star…and a man who does exactly what he wants to do. After making a big impression in the U.S. with The Motorcycle Diaries and Babel, he’s completed a number of smaller independent projects all around the world…and appeared in, of all things, Will Ferrell’s Casa de mi Padre. Now he’s back in a far more substantial project: director Pablo Larrain’s No. It’s a fascinating film about a “marketing campaign that toppled a dictator,” in which Bernal plays the executive who engineered the 1988 advertising campaign that was key in the downfall of Chilean tyrant Augusto Pinochet. It made a big impression at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and Sony Pictures Classics acquired it shortly after it won the Directors’ Fortnight price. The subtitled version will be premiering in the U.S. on February 15, 2013.
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