A journey through music, obsession, and the conflict of creation, Fuga is the first full-length feature by Pablo Larrain, Oscar-nominated director of No and Tony Manero. It is the story of a melody of how one man tries to flee from it, and another tries to take it for his own. Gaining international acclaim on its theatrical release, Fuga features strong performances from Benjamin Vicuna and Larrain s long-term collaborator Alfredo Castro. Eliseo Montalban is a musician in turmoil. As a boy he witnessed the rape and murder of his sister atop a piano, the sequence of... notes accidentally forming a melody that has haunted him ever since. Many years later, as Montalban is about to conduct a symphony based upon the same motif, he witnesses a second shocking death and descends into madness. Now, Ricardo Coppak, a mediocre musician seeking recognition and success, attempts to rescue this lost symphony. Marshalling a group of musicians, he embarks on a quest for Montalban and his composition, unaware of the dangers he is unleashing... [show more]
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Pablo Larraín directs this drama starring Benjamin Vicuna as Eliseo Montalbán, a Chilean composer who is haunted by the tragic events that befell his sister and his lover and is committed to an asylum, where he scrawls his unfinished final composition on the walls. When Argentine music student Ricardo (Gastón Pauls) discovers Eliseo's incomplete work and passes it off as his own, grave consequences ensue.
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