8 pm  Friday 1st February 2013

EVEN THE RAIN          [15]       103 mins

ICIAR BOLLAIN  (Spain 2012)
Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosas, Carlos Aduviri

A smart, socially aware fable about a Spanish film crew making a Christopher Columbus biopic about his discovery of America and the ensuing exploitation of native Americans. This is shown to be another layer in the same cycle via the troubled production’s own exploitation of cheap local labour. Set in February and March of 2000 in Bolivia when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in what Variety calls ‘a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America’s dispossessed.’ Gael García Bernal is the idealistic director with some sympathy for his low–paid workers but with a dogged determination to get his film made at all costs.



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