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Tony Manero is a 2008 Chilean film directed by Pablo Larraín about a 52-year-old man in Santiago in 1978 who is obsessed with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever. It won the top prize at the 2008 Torino Film Festival and was Chile's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1][2] In 2009 it won the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul International Film Festival.

Tony Manero
Cannes film poster
Directed by	Pablo Larraín
Written by	Alfredo Castro Mateo Iribarren Pablo Larraín
Cinematography	Sergio Armstrong
Edited by	Andrea Chignoli
Music by	Juan Cristóbal Meza
Production companies	Fábula, Prodigital
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Chile
Language	Spanish

Cast

• Alfredo Castro - Raúl Peralta
• Paola Lattus - Pauli
• Héctor Morales - Goyo
• Amparo Noguera - Cony
• Elsa Poblete - Wilma
• Marcelo Alonso - Rumano
• Maité Fernández - María
• Antonia Zegers - Productora TV
• Marcial Tagle - Vidrero
• Rodrigo Pérez - Agente CNI 1
• Pancho González - Agente CNI 2
• Luis Uribe - Enrique
• Greta Nilsson - Cajera
• Enrique Maluenda - TV host

Reception

The film holds an 84% approval rating from the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 38 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Deliberately provocative, Tony Manero is as challenging and compelling as it is difficult to describe."[3]

DVD releases

The film has been released on DVD in several countries. Region 2 DVDs were released in 2009 by Network in the U.K. and Ripley's Home Video in Italy, and an unrated region 1 DVD was released in 2010 by Kino International.

See also

• List of submissions to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Cinema of Chile

References

External links

• Tony Manero at IMDb
• Tony Manero at Rotten Tomatoes

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