Tony Manero

In the shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship Raúl dreams about dancing like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. He lives in a poor area of Santiago, where he is staging a dance show at a dreary cabaret. He also trains to win a lookalike contest by impersonating Travolta’s twisting character. But Raúl is also a serial killer, impotent and devoid of empathy, a man who his irritated by the fact that Grease has replaced his favourite film at the cinema, and kills for that reason. The film arrives from the Havana Film Festival with great critiques and several awards. kb