Bolivian cinema has long worked against the grain, shaped by decades of political upheaval and a tradition of socially committed filmmaking that stretches back to Jorge Sanjinés and the Ukamau group in the 1960s. Films like Jonah and the Pink Whale show that wit and warmth have always had a place alongside that seriousness. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment in Utama where the two elderly leads simply stand and stare out across a vast, bone-dry Bolivian plateau, the sky enormous above them, the silence total. It's a genuinely arresting image. The trouble is, that moment arrives about twenty minutes in, and
Genre Drama
★★★ — Jonah and the Pink Whale (1995)
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