Interview: Pablo Larrain On Catholicism, 'The Club' And Keeping His Actors In The Dark

If the biggest names in the recent Berlin Film Festival lineup largely disappointed with their shiny, starry films, there were more than a handful of filmmakers who totally justified, or exceeded, our prior fandom. Chief among these was Pablo Larrain, the Chilean director of "Post Mortem" and "No," who showed up almost unheralded with his latest film, "The Club" (A grade review here), which, along with Patricio Guzman's extraordinary "The Pearl Button" made this a banner Berlinale for Chile. "The Club" is a mordant, excoriating, bitter indictment of the culture of concealment in the Catholic Church, featuring no big stars, set in a depressed crummy seaside town, painted in drab colors and featuring quite possibly the most horrifically detailed and borderline-unlistenable tirade about clerical child sex abuse ever committed to film. Needless to say, it's absolutely terrific. With the film only having just premiered, we got to...