Pablo Larraín's First Argentina Film Adapts Three Mariana Enriquez Stories

Pablo Larraín, the writer-director best known for the trilogy Jackie, Spencer and Maria, ventures into Argentina for the first time with My Sad Dead (Mis muertos tristes), adapted from three stories by the Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez. The cast is led by Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandra Flechner and Carolina Álvarez, described as some of Argentina's brightest talent. Larraín's reputation rests on portraits of celebrated women; this project trades that for an Argentine writer's short fiction and an Argentine ensemble, so the change in source material is at least as interesting as the change in border. Three stories is also a structural question: whether they braid into one film or sit alongside each other is the thing to watch.