Cinematographer Edward Lachman was starting to think he’d never get to work with director Pablo Larraín, an old acquaintance. But more than 15 years after their first meeting, “El Conde,” a satirical horror film that rethinks former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet as a vile, bloodsucking vampire, has become that occasion. “Once Pablo wanted to go black-and-white and we’re dealing with …
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The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white. In “El Conde,” which he co-wrote, he uses “the language of satire and political farce” to show …
