Uruguayan cinema punches well above its weight for such a small country, with directors like Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella putting it on the map with deadpan, quietly devastating comedies in the early 2000s. The local industry has grown steadily since, producing work that tends toward dry wit and understated realism. Browse Macca's Uruguayan reviews below.
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Few premises this festival season grabbed me quite as quickly as the one at the heart of Prince, Federico Borgia's solo-debut feature: a wealthy woman leaves her entire estate to her Afghan Hound, and her human heirs can only inherit once the dog is dead. What follows
Country Uruguay
There is a wickedly good premise at the heart of Federico Borgia's Prince, and a pedigree cast to carry it, but this Uruguayan dark comedy never quite sinks its teeth in. It is a perfectly pleasant watch, handsomely made and nicely performed, yet for a film built on
Rating: 3.5★
Whisky is a strange one to recommend. On paper, everything about it should be a chore, and yet I found it quietly gripping in a way I did not see coming. That almost never happens to me with films like this, and I am still not entirely sure how it
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
★★★ — Monos (2019)
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