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Nov 4, 2022 · A man and a woman work the land in a remote area that’s largely deprived of the blessings of civilization. But they’re old, and their age is catching up to them. And the condition of the land they’re working on is worsening. It might be time to pack it in.
Jan 29, 2022 · While the film’s sparse storytelling might struggle to break through in the wider arthouse theatrical market, it’s a picture which should make waves in niche play and on the festival circuit...
Oct 28, 2022 · Utama review: Bolivian highlanders weather the climate crisis. A rare depiction of life in the Bolivian highlands, Utama shows the impact of environmental collapse on traditional Quechua ways of life, says Shayeza Walid, one of the critics from this year’s LFF Critics Mentorship Programme.
Nov 3, 2022 · The Bolivian movie “Utama” pulls you in with an uneasy mix of beauty and dread. A fictional tale that draws from real life, it takes place in the Andean plateau — the Altiplano — an arid ...
Oct 30, 2022 · With this film, Loayza Grisi has made less a work of slow cinema, despite its languid pacing, than a series of solemn, striking compositions that occasionally dip into moments of magical realism and unsettling suggestions that an unseen force might be lurking and awaiting its chance to strike.
Nov 24, 2022 · Anthropological film-making meets luscious imagery in this moving drama. Film review by Saskia Baron Utama won the World Dramatic Prize at Sundance this year and is tipped for an Oscar nomination, too.
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Utama is very much a pessimistic film, never shying away from the realities faced by those who still inhabit the highlands of Bolivia. And yet it’s also convincingly, and sometimes movingly, optimistic. 80. Screen Daily Wendy Ide.
