2011 · drama · history · supernatural
Even the Rain
Directed by Icíar Bollaín1h 43m2011
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Our read: Even the Rain (2011) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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