
Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the... (Full plot summary below)
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Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.
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| Washington PostAnn HornadayTelling an old story in a new way and infusing what might have been a dry political polemic with poetry, passion and unlikely warmth. |
| Toronto StarLinda BarnardThe most outstanding performance comes from Aduviri, an indigenous Aymara from Bolivia, who was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at Spain's Oscars, the Goyas. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussSmart and exciting, even if it ultimately ennobles its filmmaker characters, a development that suggests the political triumph of the Bolivian Indians is not as significant as the moral awakening of the Spanish protagonists. |
| Boston GlobeLoren KingAn ambitious mix of politics, religion, art, and human drama. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelScenic and gripping roller-coaster. . .with magnetic acting. . . strongly demonstrates the tremendous power of fiction to raise consciousness about the past and the present. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob Thomas"Even The Rain" is alive to the political echoes that reverberate between the 500-year-old film-within-a-film and its contemporary setting. Sometimes those echoes get a little too loud, but in general, this is thoughtful and relevant filmmaking. |
| OregonianShawn LevyIt starts as clever, but it ends in real feeling. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaEven the Rain strikes a deep and resonant chord. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsEuropeans have a taste for both the mechanics of trickery and the machinations of power, and the politically astute Spanish film "Even the Rain" belongs in the same conversation with Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night" and Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education." |
| Honolulu Star-AdvertiserBurl BurlingameIf you can handle a few scenes of hammeringly obvious metaphor, "Even The Rain" is a rich, multi-layered film that gives an involved viewer much to think about. |