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- 2003
- Unrated
- Cinema Tropical
- 1 h 15 m
- 2003
- Unrated
- Cinema Tropical
- 1 h 15 m
Summary A timely and urgent feature, rich in ideas and sensibility, Bolivia portrays, through an intimate look at its characters, an Argentina in a state of social emergency. (Cinema Tropical)
Directed By: Israel Adrián Caetano
Written By: Romina Lanfranchini, Israel Adrián Caetano
- 2003
- Unrated
- Cinema Tropical
- 1 h 15 m
- 2003
- Unrated
- Cinema Tropical
- 1 h 15 m
Bolivia
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Summary A timely and urgent feature, rich in ideas and sensibility, Bolivia portrays, through an intimate look at its characters, an Argentina in a state of social emergency. (Cinema Tropical)
Directed By: Israel Adrián Caetano
Written By: Romina Lanfranchini, Israel Adrián Caetano
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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The gritty photography is a perfect match for the film's harsh realities, the script is taut (not a word or motion is wasted) and the acting is raw and realistic.
There are no big surprises in Caetano's film, which plays out exactly as ordained, only a sense of life at its most precarious and real.
Turns the dangerous monotony of poverty and unemployment into something nearly hypnotic.
Caetano's blunt, deterministic ending underlines the point too neatly, but in dignifying an outcast whose life is treated as anonymous and disposable, he puts a human face on a national tragedy.
Virtually plot-free, the movie's organic cultivation of Argentina's economic tension and ethnophobic woes is smooth as silk.
While not particularly dramatically compelling, the film is carefully constructed and exposes both the economic and sexual exploitation of illegal workers.
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Production Company
Fundación PROA,
Hubert Bals Fund,
Iacam,
Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA),
La Expresión del Deseo
Release Date Feb 26, 2003
Duration 1 h 15 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
