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<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000">Dear All,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:large">We shall be showing some selected films from South America in the coming few weeks. The first one in the series was “Machuka” which was shown last week. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">The films usually are a reflection of the society in which they are produced and Machuka narrated the events of the overthrow of the socialist government of Allende by the US backed army coup in 1973.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:large">Coming Sunday we are screening a film which shows the acute water crisis faced in Bolivia and how the corporations are exploiting it – a precursor to what will happen in many parts of the world in times to come.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><strong><span style="font-size:20pt"><img alt="" src="https://reachvirasat.org//public/imageupload/197.png" style="height:1332px; width:628px" /></span></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color:#000000"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Even the Rain</span></em></strong> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(Spanish:</span> <strong><em><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">También la lluvia</span></em></strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) is a 2010</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Drama film"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">drama film</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">directed by</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ic%C3%ADar_Bolla%C3%ADn" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Icíar Bollaín"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Icíar Bollaín</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">and written by</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laverty" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Paul Laverty"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Paul Laverty</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The plot concerns Mexican director Sebastián (played by</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gael_Garc%C3%ADa_Bernal" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Gael García Bernal"><span style="color:black">Gael García Bernal</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">), Spanish executive producer Costa (played by</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Tosar" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Luis Tosar"><span style="color:black">Luis Tosar</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">), and their group of actors who travel to</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Bolivia"><span style="color:black">Bolivia</span></a> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">to shoot a film depicting the</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas"><span style="color:black">Spanish conquest of the New World</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. The members of the Spanish film crew unexpectedly find themselves in a moral crisis when they arrive in</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Cochabamba"><span style="color:black">Cochabamba</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Bolivia"><span style="color:black">Bolivia</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, during the intensifying</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Cochabamba Water War"><span style="color:black">Cochabamba Water War</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, in which their key indigenous actor Daniel (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Aduviri" style="color:#954f72; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Juan Carlos Aduviri"><span style="color:black">Juan Carlos Aduviri</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) gets increasingly involved.</span></span></span></p> </blockquote> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shot in Bolivia, it is an internationally co-produced film by companies from Spain, Mexico and France.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The film received nominations and awards internationally, including an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Award" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Ariel Award"><span style="color:black">Ariel Award</span></a> for Best <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Ibero-American"><span style="color:black">Ibero-American</span></a> Film and three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goya_Awards" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Goya Awards"><span style="color:black">Goya Awards</span></a>. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film"><span style="color:black">Best Foreign Language Oscar</span></a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_Academy_Awards" style="color:#954f72; background-size:auto; background-origin:padding-box; background-clip:border-box; border-radius:0px; background-position:0% 0%" target="_blank" title="83rd Academy Awards"><span style="color:black">83rd Academy Awards</span></a>, making the January shortlist.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><u>Plot:</u></strong></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of the members of a film crew headed by director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis Tosar) who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of Latin America. Set in February and March of 2000 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." Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as a local who is cast as a 15th century native in the film, but when the make-up and loin cloth come off, he sails into action protesting his community’s deprivation of water at the hands of the government. Meanwhile, Gael Garcia Bernal’s Idealist film director is as relentless as Werner Herzog infamously was in making FITZCARALDO, pushing ahead against all odds, ignoring the prevailing danger about disruption at any moment. Despite the devastation emerging around him, Sebastian seems unable to engage with any emotion over a dogmatic desire to get his film done. </span></span></span></span></p>
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