Larraín presents 'Neruda' at Cannes Director's Fortnight Chilean director Pablo Larrain's "Neruda", starring Gael Garcia Bernal, is presented as part of the Director's Fortnight contest held alongside the Cannes film festival's main competition. Bernal plays an inspector hunting for poet Pablo Neruda, played by Luis Gnecco, who became a wanted man in Chile in the late '40s for his communist sympathies. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES