Peruvian cinema has a long, underappreciated history, though internationally it is perhaps best known as a backdrop: Werner Herzog dragged a steamship over a mountain there for Fitzcarraldo, one of the most audacious shoots ever committed to film. Home-grown Peruvian filmmaking has grown steadily since, with directors like Claudia Llosa bringing it real festival attention. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 2.0★
There is a particular kind of late-1990s Hollywood product that exists somewhere between genuine genre filmmaking and expensive theme-park attraction, and Anaconda (1997) sits squarely in that territory. The film drops a documentary crew into the Amazon rainforest, where they fall under the control of a dangerously obsessive
Genre Drama
★★½ — Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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