Venezuelan cinema has long punched above its weight in Latin America, with directors like Román Chalbaud bringing gritty social realism to the screen from the 1970s onward. More recently, films like The Family have drawn international attention to a new generation telling urgent, unsentimental stories about life under political and economic pressure. See what Macca made of them below.
Rating: 3.5★
Venezuela's ongoing political crisis, the long shadow cast by the Chavista and then Maduro governments, has produced a wave of diaspora voices across literature, journalism, and film. Simón (2023) sits squarely within that current. Based on real events, it follows a young Venezuelan activist who has made it
Genre Drama
★★★ — Murphy's War (1971)
Genre Drama
★½ — The Family (2017)
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