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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Nihil I really enjoyed the film "Even in the Rain" because the movie had two stories going side by side. It was like a movie inside a movie, which was one thing that I really enjoyed about the movie. Overall the movie was very easy to understand. There might have been one scene that was not that clear to me but I got the general idea of it anyways so it was not really a big problem. If this was an American film the problem would have been solved in the movie, so it different from American films. To my understanding the problem was not resolved in this film. This film taught me how people in other parts of the world are living today and that people do not have the things that we take for granted all time. Also this film sort of taught us about the past which I taught was very interesting. It showed us how the British were treating the Natives. If was the director of this film I would have made it so at the end of the film everyone had water.

Moammar Gaddafi In a nutshell, this is Novocento 2.0. However unlike Bertolucci's story of downtrodden Italian peasants whose fate doesn't change no matter how bravely they struggle against their oppressors, this story that weaves Columbus's rape of the indigenous peoples of America with the bloody repression against the 2000 Cochabamba water riots ends in victory as the multinationals Bechtel and Suez are forced to take their greedy hands off of Bolivia's water. That was of course followed by the crowning victory of Evo Morales's presidency, Morales being one of the leaders of the Cochabamba rebellion.This is an epic film worthy of all the people who collaborated in it and devoted their lives to telling the stories of the oppressed and exploited. One might say it is their collective masterpiece and that its director the beautiful Iciar Bollain is their spiritual child, the embodiment of their collective dream.The film is as much about the American aborigines of the 16th century as about the unsubdued Ayamara Indians of Bolivia and the transformation that the left-leaning intellectual film crew and their hard-headed capitalist producer go through in the vortex of the social upheaval into which they inadvertently wander for no better reason than the availability of dirt-cheap extras.It is interesting that the only one in the film crew who comes out of it all with shining colors is the producer, who unlike the others whose lives are rooted in abstractions, has always lived firmly rooted in material reality. Luis Tosar plays the apparently conscience-free producer's profound moral transformation with gripping intensity.The real star of the film isn't as you would expect Gael Garcia Bernal, who plays the director of the Columbus movie, but Juan Carlos Aduviri, who landed the part of Daniel, the leader of the Cochabamba rebellion, as fortuitously as he does the part of the aborigine leader Atuey in the movie-within-a-movie about Columbus.Ms.Bollain's steady hand on the helm and crystal-clear vision is felt throughout the film. For some reason she hasn't directed anything since. If you ask me, she doesn't have to.

Andy Steel I found it very easy to identify with all of the main players thanks to some great performances from all involved and also a really nicely written script. It's really well shot with nice big, easily legible subtitles (more like this please foreign filmmakers!). It was interesting to see a film set in that region, we don't see very much from that part of the world. There are also some historical facts about the conquistadors that I wasn't aware of and so it even educated be a little! I love the way it slowly dawns on the crew that the mistakes made 500 years previously are still being made today! Over all, I found it well worth a look and it's one I would certainly look at again sometime.SteelMonster's verdict: RECOMMENDEDMy score: 8.3/10You can find an expanded version of this review on my blog: Thoughts of a SteelMonster.

paul2001sw-1 In Iciar Bollain's film 'Even the Rain', a Mexican film crew travel to Bolivia to make a film about the historical exploitation of indigenous Americans by European settlers. But they're motivated by the low cost of filming, and, when the locals who play the movie's numerous extras get involved in a political revolt, it's unclear whose side the film-makers are really on. The crew includes an idealistic director, his hard-nosed producer and mentor, and a cynical, boozy leading actor: but the characters are in no way clichés, and the way that they develop is a key part of the real film's success. Gael Garcia Bernal is as usual good as the director, but the whole cast is excellent, the film raises serious questions about the control of common assets, and even the film within a film appears to be something one would pay to see. The sad thing is that the issues explored - a world where even the rain is privatised - are very real in the actual world.