As Lima Film Festival’s 20th edition kicks into high gear this week, it’s been refreshing to see that most of the Peruvian films both in and out of competition are all pretty solid; it’s a sign that local cinema is steadily improving. For proof, you need look no further than La Luz en el Cerro (The Light On The Hill), an old-fashioned thriller, the likes of which Peru very rarely sees; it’s a promising first feature from director Ricardo Velarde. Jeff (Manuel Gold) and Chino (Emilram Cossio) are two young coroners working the morgue at a remote town in the Andes, with nothing much to do other than smoke and blast some extreme metal on the radio. Their boring routine is cut short when the...
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- 8/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Mercedes (Mayella Lloclla) is an orphan who comes to work as a maid for the lonely, widowed Silvia (Vanessa Saba), who lives all by herself in a huge, rundown house. While there, she catches the eye of Jaime (Manuel Gold, an actor known for comedic roles, here playing it mostly straight), a backpacker earning money as a handyman. Unknown to both of them, however, is that the whole thing is a plan hatched by Silvia to get Mercedes pregnant and claim her baby as her own, at all costs. That's the plot behind El Vientre, the second film from Daniel Rodríguez Risco, after 2008 drama The Watercolorist. It's the first Peruvian release of the year and also this country's first attempt at a psychological thriller. Genre movies...
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- 2/14/2014
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