On Feb. 15 the Academy Award nominated film "No" will be released in New York and Los Angeles. The movie stars Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal.
Directed by Pablo Larrain, the film tells the story of an ad executive who comes up with a campaign to defeat dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
"No" opened last May at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Director's Fortnight competition. It later played at the New York and Toronto Film Festival.
"No" has garnered rave reviews with an 88 percent aggregate score on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety stated that the film was "Tense throughout, even for history-savvy auds, but still rich in the sort of Andean-soil-black humor that made Larrain's previous work so distinctive.
The New York Times also praised it and stated "'No' is an ugly looking movie - literally - for an ugly time. It's smeary, with little pictorial beauty or detail, but its anti-aesthetic is purposeful and, after your eyes stop hurting, watchable and persuasive."
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the film "Explores the power of popular dissent, and the coordinated persuasions of media, marketing, and targeted advertising in shaping the word no to invigorate a populace pessimistically conditioned to think that nothing will ever change for the good."
The Chilean director Larrain last directed "Post Mortem" and the HBO series "Profugos." He recently produced the Sundance hit "Crystal Fairy" which will be released later this year.
Bernal recently starred in "La Casa de Mi Padre" alongside Will Ferrell and Diego Luna and was also seen in the Indie film "The Loneliest Planet." He is currently filming "Deserted Cities."
"No" will compete for the Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars. It has already made history by becoming the first Chilean film to ever get nominated for the award.
The film will be released in New York and Los Angeles and is rated R for Language.