Reviews of Even The Rain 2011
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Even the Rain is a film positively bursting with a sense of importance which comes as little surprise when you discover it was penned by Paul Laverty, a regular Ken Loach collaborator. Laverty once again mines true social injustices and socio-political situations for dramatic gains and, once again, the results are frustratingly uneven. The movie follows a film crew trying to make a revisionist drama about Christopher Columbus whilst taking advantage of cheap labour costs in Bolivia. What they didn’t…
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A remarkable film that simultaneously recreates the exploitation of the indigenous peoples by Columbus at the end of the 15th century and the exploitation of the Bolivian peasantry at the beginning of the 21st century by government backed commercialised water company's.
This really is a film of real substance and quality. It's totally engaging from beginning to end and it really couldn't be more unique.
Director Icíar Bollaín leaves no stone left unturned as she examines the role of the…
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Dedicated to Howard Zinn, the famous New Left historian, Even the Rain looks at imperialism from the perspective of the exploited. It is an interesting effort, but one that feels incredibly heavy-handed & propagandistic.
I appreciate that the film has good intentions, but the dialogue is so on the nose and the director has such a ferocious hatred for subtlety, that it makes me resistant to the whole endeavor. Not even Gael Garcia Bernal's dashing looks can distract me from the… -
Fantastically beautiful film recalling equal parts Herzog and Malick perhaps weighed down slightly by a pointed political message. The cast is uniformly great, especially Juan Carlos Aduviri who was absolutely riveting, with a very interesting face (a compliment). Can't wait to pick this bad boy up on baby-blu.
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Impressive film filming circumstances of filming a film. In other words, a movie about the riots in Bolivia regarding water privatization, during which Mexican (my guess) filmmakers were making their own film about Christopher Columbus from the natives' point of the view.
Gorgeous scenery, brilliant actors and even greater story, about relativity of values, looking through the eyes of both sides, of people depending on things the other people take for granted.
This movie carries important message, both on political…
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This movie was a pretty accurate portrayal of how the film industry thinks whatever it's doing is the most important thing in the world. Well, this is true for humans in general, whatever we are involved in seems like life or death and even being in the thick of a juxtaposition of disparity, it's hard to see clearly. I loved the actor that played Gael Garcia Bernal's producer. I loved the scene where the women extras refuse to participate in…
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Even the Rain is that type of film that wins you over from its very start based in the strengths and novelty of its main concept alone. The script is quite successful layering many characters, dialogues and situations in ways that create brutal contrasts, and effective moments that seem to blur the lines between reality and fiction. The film also benefits from a very well defined sense of place, beautiful cinematography and performances that manage to eclipse the more uneven, preachy sequences. Highly recommended.
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I had to watch this for Spanish 232, but I enjoyed this film a lot. The film-within-a-film worked well here, and Juan Carlos Aduviri killed it as Daniel. It made me hate the movie industry for a little, even though I fucking love movies.
This is a film I will probably watch again down the road (got to get fluent in this bitch), and I hope I still enjoy it.
Daniel's gift to Costa at the end is beautiful, a great way to drive home the theme.
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Emotionally engaging at best; emotionally explicit at worst. Par
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The marriage between a Christopher Columbus story and the Bolivian "Water Wars" is a haphazardly arranged marriage destined for divorce. It also seems like another self indulgent, lame excuse to make a film about making films. The connection between the 2 stories is crude, as is the character development. It doesn't work. They should have written a story that fits rather than tried to hammer a heart shaped box through an anus shaped hole. The ending is also hinged on a scene that doesn't make sense.
Some good acting and a reasonably interesting "People Power" story, but not that interesting.
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Worth seeing. A well done movie about a group of film makers who travel to Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus. It's easy to forget that Europeans came in and took the Americas from native people, but this movie reminds us of exactly that and shows that it's still happening.. even with the rain.
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Christopher Columbus meets water privatisation riots in Bolivia. But really, really good. Even the film within the film looks excellent.
The sequel to Quantum of Solace. Which I liked, despite the incompetent action scenes. Gold is the past, oil the present, water the future.