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El Conde (2023)

Margaret: It's said that when one samples the

succulent muscle of a still-palpitating heart,

it's hard to go back to being a normal person.

A happy 49th birthday to the brilliant Chilean writer-director Pablo Larraín -- okay so his Maria bio-pic with Angelina Jolie left me a little cold too but lest we forget he put out El Conde just one year earlier and that movie slaps ass. ("Slapping ass" is good right? Well it is when I do it anyway.) Name me another movie that revolves around a third act reveal of Margaret Thatcher, Flying Bloodsucker -- I'm waiting! Anyway looking ahead at what Pablo's got planned for the future he's an exectuive producer on that incredible-looking Mussolini biopic from Joe Wright that I shared the trailer for yesterday. But that's not the coolest thing -- last month it was announced that he's writing and directing a four-part horror miniseries for Netflix called My Sad Dead, which is based on several short stories by Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez; here's how it's described:

"Ema, a 60-year-old doctor, can see and hear the dead. She calls them ‘presences’ and has lived her entire life avoiding letting this gift connect her with the suffering of others. But when her niece Julie, a disturbed young woman who can also communicate with the dead, but in a much more intense and sexual manner, arrives at her house, Ema is forced to get involved. What begins as a family reunion turns into a disturbing chain of events that alters the balance between the world of the living and the dead, infecting an entire neighborhood with voices from beyond. As the borders between life, death and desire blur, Ema will have to confront her past, her daughter and the ghosts she never let go.."

It stars a bunch of Argentian actors who'll probably seem somewhat familiar to me when I see them even if I don't recognize their names -- if anybody wants to slap me upside the head with a "Duhh, you know this person from this thing!" comment please have at it. Anyway IMDb lists the series as currently in production so hopefully we'll see that next year. Happy birthday, Pablo!