The Chilean filmmaker, who passed away on Friday aged 52, leaves behind a diverse but cohesive body of work including 'Gloria,' 'The Wonder' and the Oscar-winning 'A Fantastic Woman.'
By Guy Lodge
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Billy Kidd for Variety When it was announced, in 2017, that the Chilean writer-director Sébastian Lelio was to helm a U.S. remake of his 2013 breakout film “Gloria,” admirers of the original — and indeed of Lelio himself — had cause for concern. English-language do-overs of world cinema successes frequently go awry; furthermore, we had the cautionary tale of Dutchman George Sluizer, who directed a hopeless 1993 remake of his own impeccable 1988 chiller “The Vanishing,” to remind us that even having the original filmmaker in charge was no guarantee against a travesty.
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