Cannes welcomes Gael García Bernal in "Neruda"

Mexican actor Gael García Bernal's new film "Neruda," was received with loud applause at the LXXIX edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.

Gael plays Chilean police inspector Oscar Peluchonneau, who during the late 1940s was ordered to arrest of Pablo Neruda, then a senator who went into hiding in the ranks of the Communist Party.

"The supposedly secondary role of Gael becomes Main," expressed director Pablo Larraín, pointing that the character of Neruda, played by Luis Gnecco, gets so involved with the detective, "to the point of becoming the same".

Larraín said that the film is "Nerudian" in essence, but far from being a biopic. The movie was screened before 840 spectators during La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, a parallel selection running along that of the Cannes Film Festival.

Gael and the team of actors, producers, and the filmmaker responded to questions at the end of the projection, which will be exhibited again this afternoon.

"I am fascinated by the film. It is a pleasure to work with this family of cinema ... I am delighted to be part of this whole group," expressed Gael.

The movie is competing for the best film award in the XLVII edition of La Quinzaine with 17 other feature films from all over the world.

Gael tweeted his experience. "Friends: Here we are, happy and dreaming while we walk. Today #Neruda is premiered, so exciting! Fuck, big kisses!!!!", he wrote.