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Film round-up: Friday April 7
MARIA DUARTE isn’t wholly convinced by a fanciful biopic of Chilean bard Pablo Neruda

Neruda (15), directed by Pablo Larrain

3/5

THIS dramatisation of the life and work of Chilean poet, diplomat, politician and Nobel prizewinner Pablo Neruda is unconventional, if not surreal, to say the least.






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