2004 · comedy · drama · uruguayan
Whisky
Directed by Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll1h 39m2004
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
Our read: Whisky (2004) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded comedy · drama · uruguayan entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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