Even the Rain
A powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America's dispossessed that cunningly parallels the Spanish conquest of the Americas with the 20th-century spread of capitalism, Iciar Bollain's fifth feature is her most ambitious and best, driving its big ideas home through a tightly knit Paul Laverty script (...).
Most of pic deals with the difficulties – moral rather than financial – relating to the shoot, with perspectives shifting to include lengthy scenes from the film being shot and a simultaneous docu about the shoot itself. It quickly becomes clear that Columbus' interest in grabbing as much as gold as possible is being played out, five centuries later, by Costa's (the name fits) penny-pinching: They are in Bolivia precisely because extras can be hired here more cheaply than anywhere else.
Simultaneously with the shoot, the locals, led by Daniel, are fighting the Bolivian government's privatization of the water supply, a real-life episode that Laverty smoothly incorporates.
Jonathan Holland, Variety
Original title: También La Lluvia
Duration: 104min
Dialogue: Spanish
Subtitles: Finnish and Swedish
Age limit: K15
