20 Best Foreign Movies Of 2016

Hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed Pinochet trilogy (Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No), Chilean director Pablo Larrain turned his scathingly critical eye to the Catholic Church in his drama The Club.

Set in a remote house on the outskirts of a small beach town, the movie focuses on a group of exiled priests guilty of heinous acts like child abuse and baby racketeering whose purgatorial but relatively peaceful existence is shattered by the arrival of a new priest followed by one of his victims. A claustrophobic and bleak but thought-provoking meditation on guilt and denial, The Club scooped the Jury Grand Prix at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

You can also catch Pablo Larrain’s diverse directorial style in his other current films – the raved about first lady biopic Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, and his masterful mindf*ck ‘anti-biography’ Neruda about Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda set for a wide release in 2017.