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Even the Rain
Directed by
Icíar Bollaín
Not Rated
2010
1h 44m
Drama
,
History
7.4
87%
85%
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As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Cast of Even the Rain
Luis Tosar
Costa
Gael García Bernal
Sebastián
Juan Carlos Aduviri
Daniel / Hatuey
Karra Elejalde
Antón / Christopher Columbus
Raúl Arévalo
Juan / Antonio de Montesinos
Cassandra Ciangherotti
María
Carlos Santos
Alberto / Bartolomé de las Casas
Milena Soliz
Belén / Panuca
Leónidas Chiri
Teresa
Ezequiel Díaz
Bruno
Pau Cólera
Actor capitán
Vicente Romero Sánchez
Actor comandante
Antonio Mora
Actor franciscano
Daniel Currás
Soldado gallego
Glenda Rodríguez
Asistente casting
Sonia Ovando
Ona / Sonia
Jorge Ortiz
Prefecto
Luis Bredow
Comisario
Bernardo Arancibia Flores
Médico
Alejandro Lanza
Enfermera
Fernando Cervantes
Sacerdote
Oscar-Ricardo Encinas
Auxiliar de cámara
Ivan Candia
Extra
Andrea Camponovo
Make-up artist
Diego Ortiz
Guardia
Alejandra Lanza
Enfermera (uncredited)
Najwa Nimri
Isabel (uncredited)
Javier B. Suarez
Colono español (uncredited)
Even the Rain Ratings & Reviews
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
The film, meanwhile, remains mired in the middle ground between meta-cinematic cleverness and earnest good intentions.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Smart and exciting, even if it ultimately ennobles its filmmaker characters, a development that suggests the political triumph of the Bolivian Indians is not as significant as the moral awakening of the Spanish protagonists.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Director Iciar Bollain remains such an extraordinary director of actors that in every scene some surprising nuance counters the literalism of the script.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
This ambitious, cycloramic narrative about a Spanish film crew attempting to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus amid citizen unrest in Bolivia is so potent it nearly succeeds even as a vacuum sits squarely at its center.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Despite the whiff of a Hollywood ending, "Even the Rain" is a refreshing import.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Even the Rain strikes a deep and resonant chord.
Boston Globe
Loren King
An ambitious mix of politics, religion, art, and human drama.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
This sort of filmmaking is what the medium was created for.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Telling an old story in a new way and infusing what might have been a dry political polemic with poetry, passion and unlikely warmth.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The performance by Luis Tosar as the producer is confident and sturdy. Gael Garcia Bernal, as the director, is wimpy and not clearly defined, but that's in the nature of the character.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
There are, inevitably, a couple of riveting moments mixed in with the agitprop.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Senes of Columbus's arrival and of his imperialist and religious sloganeering, and of the carnage he wreaks, have a grandeur and a force reminiscent of Terrence Malick films. The segments about the chaotic water riots have a documentary immediacy.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Shuffling ideas from "Fitzcarraldo" and "Dances With Wolves" yields the cinematic equivalent of a term paper for Imperialism 101 in "Even the Rain."
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Even the Rain" is that irresistible thing - a movie about the making of a movie - combined with a bit of a history and a political message.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
"Even the Rain" does have its pretensions, along with its ambitions, but it also illustrates film's power.
AV Club
Sam Adams
There's a rueful, knowing quality to the moments when Bernal's character puts the film above all else, blinded to the fact that his pursuit jeopardizes the ideals he means to enshrine.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Subtle the film is not, with Icar Bollan always working extra hard to make sure we don't miss the parallels between the different modes of oppression.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
A splendid film about a movie crew blindsided by the real world.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Director Icar Bollan mixes Even the Rain's various storytelling modes with an obviousness that ultimately negates enlightening intellectual or emotional discovery.
Variety
Jonathan Holland
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.
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