Bolaño, Up Close and PersonalMovie
Generously included as a bonus DVD alongside the 502-page Bolaño salvaje, a book of essays about and reminiscences on the Chilean novelist/poet published by the Barcelona-based Editorial Candy. Bolaño cercano [a difficult to translate title approximating something like Bolaño, Up Close and Personal], which offers up a sympathetic portrait of Bolaño as a loving family man and tireless reader and writer and teases with ever so brief glimpses of his personal library and countless spiral notebooks filled with rough drafts of his novels and poetry and even comic book-like drawings and illustrations.
About Bolaño, Up Close and Personal
Bolaño, Up Close and Personal is a 2008 documentary movie directed by Erik Haasnoot.
The production information lists a runtime of 40m, production credits from Spain, an original language code of ES.
The credited cast includes Juan Villoro, Enrique Vila-Matas, Rodrigo Fresán, Roberto Bolaño. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
