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Utama (2022)

Drama | 87 minutes
3,07 35 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: Bolivia / Uruguay / France

Directed by: Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe and Santos Choque

IMDb score: 7,1 (2.442)

Releasedate: 11 May 2022

Utama plot

"Time has gotten tired"

Time seems to have no hold on the plateau. The elderly Quechua couple Virginio and Sisa lead a routine life. When Clever visits his grandparents, he tries to convince them to move to the city. The persistent drought must provide extra motivation to look for better places. But do the lovers just want to leave their home? Meanwhile, the ailing Virginio finds it difficult to hide his ailing health from those around him.

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BBarbie

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I really enjoyed this introduction to a film from Bolivia. Beautiful images of the vast Bolivian plateau frame a touching story about an elderly couple who try to survive in a remote location in increasingly deteriorating circumstances. A film about affection on the one hand and intransigence on the other. The characters with their weathered, almost sculpted faces come across as very authentic.

In that respect, the film inadvertently evoked memories of the Chinese drama Yin Ru Chen Yan [aka: Return to Dust, 2022], that I recently saw. Great poster by the way.

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De filosoof

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The story is uninteresting – husband and wife live remote and they are having a hard time because he is sick/dying and she has to walk far for water – and is also poorly acted. The drama is a cliché - the grandson who wants to take them to town comes along but is not welcome by the old man but before he dies their relationship has become good - and the beauty of the images is also a cliché because the landscape at sunrise, etc. Even 87 minutes are very long.

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mrklm

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Clever [Santos Choque] travels to the Bolivian highlands to persuade his grandparents Virginio [José Calcina] and Sisa [Luisa Quispe] to move to the city. Prolonged heat and drought threaten to disrupt the harvest, but Virginio harbors a grudge against Clever's father for allegedly abandoning the family. The acting is not great and the existential story is not overflowing with originality, but thanks to the beautiful camera work of Barbara Alvarez and the subdued music of Cergio Prudencio, Grisi manages to create an atmospheric portrait of a way of life that is in danger of dying out.

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