The Invented Biography
(orig. La biografía inventada)
Dir. Nicolas Lasnibat
Synopsis
Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a “work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages“. Known also for Los detectives salvajes.
This film follows Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a great part of his biography. The director searches for him in places where his stories and novels occur, meeting with real and imaginary characters, in a territory where reality and fiction have a diffuse frontier. A new form of literary biopic, where the writer and his character turn into one and only person.
Starring
Anne Alvaro, Michel Bulteau, José Hernández Piel Divina, Amparo Noguera,
Writer
Nicolas Lasnibat
DP
Gordon Spooner
Production Companies
La Fabrica Nocturna, Panchito Films, Fidelio Films
Year
2018
Producers
Xavier Rocher, Francisco Hervé, David Figueroa García, Mauro Mueller
“Belano me permitía abordar la figura de Bolaño mezclando su propia vida con la de su obra. Algo que es muy usual en la literatura que él apreciaba: Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Schwob, Walter Pater. Durante el rodaje, supe que los poetas infrarrealistas hacían lo mismo.”
— Nicolás Lasnibat
”Belano allowed me to approach the figure of Bolaño by blending his own life with his work. This is something very common in the literature he admired: Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Schwob, Walter Pater. During the shoot, I learned that the infrarrealist poets did the same.”
— Nicolás Lasnibat
Festivals
2018 Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine, Chile