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Harpur Cinema Presents: NO!
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Harpur Cinema Presents: NO!
Pablo Loraine, Chile, 2012, 118 min.
Friday, September 19, 2025, and Sunday, September 21, 2025: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission.
For fifteen years, Augusto Pinochet's reign of fascist terror across Chile involved political murders, disappearances, torture, and the mass incarceration of enemies. Cornered into a plebiscite to determine a new eight-year term, Pinochet leverages his political capital against a splintered opposition that must assemble, not by agreement, but by necessity. Enter René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), a Santiago ad man who raids the toolkit of jingles, test markets, and candy-colored optimism to upend the regime. For 27 nights, Saavedra and a scrappy cohort of artists hijack the airwaves, broadcasting joy as sabotage, using the same gloss that sells soda to overthrow the government. The first Chilean film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Pablo Larraín's No is a bracing paradox rendered as thriller: a reminder that even when advertising helps dislodge a tyrant, liberation arrives branded, and what’s won on the screen must still be defended in the streets, in memory, and in the everyday work of refusing amnesia.
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Lecture Hall 6
Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902, United States