In 2008 , Pablo Larraín 's film '' Tony Manero '' about a serial killer with an obsession for John Travolta 's character in '' Saturday Night Fever '' premiered to rave reviews in Cannes . The film is considered to be the first entry in Larrain 's " unintentional trilogy " set during the Pinochet era in Chile . Larraín 's next film in the series , '' Post Mortem '' , centers on a coroner 's assistant during the days of 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power . The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2010 . The final film in the series is '' No '' , in which Gael García Bernal plays an advertising company executive who runs the " No " campaign in the 1988 plebiscite that ultimately voted Augusto Pinochet out of power . '' No '' premiered in the Directors ' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Art Cinema Award for Best Director . The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards
2012 Cannes Film Festival
2012 Cannes Film Festival
Pablo Larraín