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Pablo Larrain's 'Post Mortem' Takes Top Prize at Cartagena Film Fest

The Chile-set dark love story won the award for best film, and "La sociedad del semaforo" was voted best Colombian picture.

BUENOS AIRES -- Chilean director Pablo Larrain's second feature Post Mortem won the best film award in the Cartagena Film Festival's fiction category. The film tells a dark love story between a lonely morgue clerk and a burlesque dancer set against the backdrop of 1973 Chile, during the days of the military coup that overthrew President Allende.