The script for even the rain is by paul laverty, a longtime collaborator of the veteran british director ken loach. One of the fascinating aspects of the movie is the way it meshes together two historical episodes of colonialism, one with the 15th century colonization of the new world and the other water wars of 19992000 cochabamba. Bollan and laverty offer a cutting, selfcritical analysis of their medium while finding an honest and effective. Even the rain is a liberal spanishlanguage movie within a movie set against the cochabamba water wars of bolivia in 2000. Even the rain is alive to the political echoes that reverberate between the 500yearold film withina film and its contemporary setting. Singin in the rain is a 1952 moviemusical all about the movies, including musicals. This smart fable stars gael garcia bernal as a heartthrob herzog whose film crew starts to perpetuate the exploitation they hope to denounce.
Juan carlos aduviri and gael garcia bernal in even the rain. First of all, it has a bona fide movie star in gael garcia bernal. In other words, singin in the rain is all up in the movie businesss, well, businessso why not end the picture on a reference to the picture itself. It was lavertys idea to center even the rain around a spanish film crew headed by director sebastian gael garcia bernal and producer costa.
The title, even the rain, refers to the notion that catching rainwater would be illegal. Director iciar bollain on her new film, even the rain sfgate. Feb 12, 2012 even the rain is set in the midst of this remarkable episode in the history of political conflicts over water. It dramatizes a group of filmmakers caught up in a bolivian protest over water privatization in 2000, while trying to film a movie about christopher columbus and spains subjugation of the native people. Even the rain 2010 tvma 1h 42m social issue dramas while making a film about the incursion of christopher columbus in the new world, a director finds the. Riots erupt when the rates charged by the water company prove ruinous. Sometimes those echoes get a little too loud, but in.
Sep 24, 2012 inspired by the reallife water wars in bolivia in the year 2000, even the rain explores the lasting effects of spanish imperialism, still resonating some 500 years later in the continued struggle. Even the rain is a 2010 spanish drama film directed by iciar bollain about mexican director sebastian and spanish executive producer costa who travel to bolivia to shoot a film depicting christopher columbus conquest. Even the rain sets up an intriguing dialogue about spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief. The movie revolves around a couple of spanish filmmakers, costa and sebastian, played by luis tosar and gael garcia bernal, respectively. May 31, 2015 to make this claim memorys brought even the rain. I encourage everyone in search of a great movie to go see even the rain. Even the rain has been filmed in cochabamba, is based on that real event and instead of james bond has daniel as a christ figure. It juxtaposes christopher columbus brutal colonisation of south american indigenous people against an unscrupulous government selling precious water resources even the rain to a multination corporation. It was like a movie inside a movie, which was one thing that i really enjoyed about the movie. When riots break out in cochabamba, protesting excessive fees for water, production is interrupted and the convictions of the crew members are challenged. In iciar bollains new film, even the rain, it is the year 2000 and riots are raging in the streets of cochabamba, bolivia, when the director of a film about columbus voyages to the new world. The film is about a mexican executive producer, costa, and the director, sebastian. Spains entry, even the rain, has a good chance to make the cut.
It also has a strong social conscience that often appeals to. You can read the complete poem and learn more about agha shahid ali and his work at my poetry corner june 2015. A spanish film crew helmed by idealistic director sebastian gael garcia bernal and his cynical producer costa luis tosar come to bolivia to make a revisionist epic about the conquest of latin america on the cheap. Set in bolivia, even the rain equates the struggles of the countrys modernday peasants to those of columbuss day in a sort of elergy to the. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Laverty and bollain, who have been a couple for 14 years, met on the set of. Famed director, sebastian, and his hardnosed producer, costa, have come to bolivia to save money while finishing their epic movie about the spanish colonization of the new world. Even the rain and the need for dealing with complexity.
Director iciar bollain on her new film, even the rain. Even the rain a fantastic example of the greater meaning a functioning narrative brings to a film. And as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain. Even the rains addictive promise is that it may reveal the motivations and the causes of colonialism, which generates the desire to rewatch and analyze the film, although the answer will always remain beyond it. It dramatizes a group of filmmakers caught up in a bolivian protest over water privatization. Stand out performances from bernal and juan carlos aduviri. The makers of the moviewithinthemovie are themselves continuing the very exploitation of natives that columbus introduced. Even the rain 2011 bolivian film extras launch a protest against the privatization of their water supply, which parallels the spanish conquest and exploitation of the new world. Sebastian and costa unexpectedly land themselves in a moral crisis when they and their crew arrive at cochabamba, bolivia, during the intensifying cochabamba water war in 2000, which their key native actor daniel persistently leads. Oct 30, 2012 the spanish movie, even the rain 2010, which talks about the exploitation of indigenous peoples, has an irresistible combination.
Even the rain 2010 tvma 1h 42m social issue dramas while making a film about the incursion of christopher columbus in the new world, a director finds the bolivian locals protesting modern exploitation. Oct 01, 2010 toronto international film festival 2010part 3 even the rain and the need for dealing with complexity by david walsh 1 october 2010 this is the third of a series of articles devoted to the. The rebellion ends only after the protests have brought bolivia to a standstill and the company has withdrawn. Eventually, however, costa is forced to choose between the success of the film and the demands of his conscience staring at him relentlessly. Even the rain is a film that sought to address issues of oppression in third world countries. This smart fable stars gael garcia bernal as a heartthrob herzog whose film crew starts to perpetuate the exploitation. Considering how ambitious it is, how many different narrative strands it employs, the spanish film even the rain does a remarkably good job keeping its. Even the rain tells us that understanding the past is meaningless unless that knowledge can be made relevant to the present day, a lesson that the characters must learn the hard way. In even the rain, directed by iciar bollain and written by ken loachs longtime screenwriter, paul laverty, a film crew arrives in cochabamba, bolivia, in 2000 to shoot a shoestringbudget epic. Feb 18, 2011 a movie within a movie, even the rain draws parallels between the european colonialism of antiquity and more modern forms of exploiting indigenous populations.
In most of the countries of central and south america, some version of the conquest is still going on. At a time when the poor of the world seem to be rising up, i found myself deeply moved and completely enthralled by this film. The screenplay was written by paul laverty, who wrote the script for ken loachs spanish civil war film land and freedom. Even the rain is an interesting juxtaposition of two time periods, separated by over 500 years, exploring the impact of spanish imperialism in latin america. Jan 05, 2011 i really enjoyed the film even in the rain because the movie had two stories going side by side. May 19, 2012 the better of the two is the gripping even the rain, scripted by ken loachs regular screenwriter paul laverty and directed by the spanish actress iciar bollain, author of a book about working. A reader informed me that there was indeed such a scheme, and that in cochabamba, the bechtel corp. Feb 18, 2011 considering how ambitious it is, how many different narrative strands it employs, the spanish film even the rain does a remarkably good job keeping its disparate elements involving and in.
Some critics have compared it to herzogs fitzcarraldo. In the end, even the rain proves to be an intensely moving examination of the possibility of redemption that endures both on and off the screen. Even the rain 2011 stream and watch online moviefone. Here sebastian faces not only a crusading local actor but an alcoholic leading man and a pennypinching producer. As a satire, it deconstructs the movie trade and finds humor in the truth about the industrys shortcomings. But he has bought griefs lottery, bought even the rain. The indian populations remain subservient to those of european or mestizo mixed origins, almost 500 years after hernan cortes and his men first landed on the eastern shore of mexico.
It is a movie about the making of a movie combined with a bit of a history and a political message. Sebastian and costa unexpectedly land themselves in a. Sebastian and costa are forced to make an unexpected emotional journey in opposite directions. Even the rains complex narrative structure is based on several different layers that relay the main events of the film. A movie within a movie, even the rain draws parallels between the. Toronto international film festival 2010part 3 even the rain and the need for dealing with complexity by david walsh 1 october 2010 this is the third of a series of articles devoted to the. Released february 18th, 2011, even the rain stars luis tosar, gael garcia bernal, juan carlos aduviri, karra elejalde the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 44 min, and received a score of out. Daniel is one of the activists protesting price gouging for something as essential as water will sebastian and his colleagues join him in speaking out against this injustice. Even the rain evoked the myriad ways, both good and bad, that the rain has touched my life, connecting me to people, places, and events. The personal dynamics of a movie location can be tricky. As the film opens, a cast and crew have arrived on location in the mountains of bolivia, far from the caribbean shores first founded by. It is a spanish drama film that was directed by bollain. A film within a film within a film, even the rain holds up a hall of mirrors to the third world and invites us to look in.