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Even the Rain

Posted on April 13, 2013July 17, 2020 by Village Vidiot

  “Even the Rain,” (Spanish with subtitles), April 13, 2013 (2010), DVD.  We really liked this disturbing 2010 pairing of colonialism/neo-colonialism. A Spanish film crew comes to Bolivia (!) to make a movie about Columbus, the abuse of the indigenous peoples, their resistance, and the emergence of opponents among the guilty Spanish clerics. They go to Bolivia. because it’s cheaper than filming in the islands and there are no natives left there but this places them at the epicenter of imperial battles today over control of water and the resistance of native peoples. Tense and painful to watch, it chronicles the evolving understanding of the film crew and, especially, Costa, the producer (Luis Tosar) and director Sebastion (Gael Garcia Bernal), as they interact with Daniel (Juan Carlos Aduviri), a local resistance leader cast as the leader of Taino resistance in the 16th century. Worthwhile and, I think, well made

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