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    Jun 17, 2021 5 minutes
    JONATHAN ROMNEY

    WHITE ON WHITE Not many performers in today’s cinema can approach the mesmerising strangeness of Klaus Kinski in his prime, but Alfredo Castro is one of them. The Chilean actor made his international breakthrough as the lead in two films by Pablo Larrain – playing a disco-dancing sociopath in 2008’s Tony Manero and a morgue worker caught up in the horrors of the Pinochet years in Post Mortem (2010). More recently, his supporting role as a celebrity detective in Argentinian film Rojo proved that Castro is one of those actors who can just quietly stroll into a film midway and set your nerves tingling with a sense of irreducible danger.

    Castro is in muted mode, but no less galvanising, in – a period drama by Chilean-Spanish director Théo Court. He plays Pedro, a photographer who visits

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