Bolivia
by Adri?n Caetano
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Actor: Enrique Liporace, Freddy Flores, Marcelo Videla, Oscar Bertea, Rosa S?nchezDirector: Adri?n Caetano
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Bolivia
Movie Review: Hardships provoke anger, hatred, jealousy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Director Israel Adrian Caetano was born in 1969, and has won several movie awards, but this is his directorial debut, 2001. Filmed in black and white the plot is little, the actors are excellent, and the social message is clear. It is the words that invoke so much anger, hate, jealousy, shame, by those struggling with economic and personal hardships. And inevitably, those words provoke the worst of man. The film is not gripping in action, but gripping in its message, words, reality, and pain all go through surviving.
Filmed in a Brazilian caf? that caters to the working class, the down and out, and those just ready for a quick meal. Enrique, the caf? owner, hires an illegal, Freddy, from Bolivia who for employment, has left a wife and children in Argentina.
Enrique, runs the small caf? with the help of Rosa the waitress while Freddy tends to the grill. It seems all that Enrique can do is manage the caf?, but yet he diligently attempts to monitor the outgoing meals versus incoming debt (tabs) from the low lifers, and ridding the deadbeats from passing out in the caf?.
The anger and hatred spews from the regulars, especially the taxi driver who is in deep despair, in debt, and in debt with Enrique at the caf?. The racist comments are heard and mean insinuations about immigrants taking work from the others. The N word is used, but my interpretation is the color of skin doesn't only apply to African Americans, it's an insult to one who may have darker skin. Continuing to keep his job, working hard, Freddy is keen to the ever present and erupting behavior; has a very watchful eye, and he, too, evolves in the circle of hardships.
One other film directed by Caetano to watch is Chronicle of an Escape. A soccer player's ordeal in prison, set in late 70's military coup. Warning, this is a film not everybody can watch, and I cannot, as a prominent theme is torture. Rizzo.
Summary of Bolivia
"Visceral, sanguine, extremely well directed. An essential film. Caetano is extremely talented." -Walter Salles, director of The Motorcycle Diaries"Dazzling! Full of restless energy. Reminiscent of Taxi Driver." -Jamie Russell, bbc.co.uk
A starkly realistic story of an illegal immigrant from Bolivia who lands a job with a greasy spoon on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Bolivia poignantly depicts the world of poverty, racism and violence that characterize his newfound reality. Much like Do the Right Thing, tempers flare as discontented working-class people barrel toward tragedy. Shot in a lyrical, neo-realistic style, this taut film is an urgent and timely drama of life in Argentina, a nation in crisis that in the last few years has reached unprecedented poverty levels with vast unemployment, bankruptcy, and a shrinking economy. A multiple prizewinner in film festivals worldwide, Bolivia suggests that an important new voice is being heard. This second feature by Adri?n Caetano, one of Argentina's rising stars in its miraculously fecund movie-making community, manages to be both powerful and understated.
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