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Altiplano

Germany, Netherlands, Belgium

2009

109 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, Farsi, French, Spanish, Quechua
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DIR Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth

PROD Heino Deckert

SCR Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth

DP Francisco Gozon

CAST Magaly Solier, Jasmin Tabatabai, Olivier Gourmet, Arturo Anacarino Zarate, Malku Choquehuillca, Edgar Condori, Behi Djanati Atai, Kian Khalili, Sonia Loaiza, Hermelinda Luján, Norma Martínez, Andreas Pietschmann, Antonio Quevedo, Edgar Quispe, Rodolfo Rodriguez

ED Nico Leunen

MUSIC Michel Schöpping

SOUND Paul Gies, Marc Lizier

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), São Paulo (Perspective), Transilvania (Competition), Ghent (Competition)

Synopsis

War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman in Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination. Ignorant of its true source, the villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot Max is killed. Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max’s death. Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless violations towards her people and her land. Grace and Saturnina’s destinies merge. Altiplano is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but inextricably linked world. —Sao Paulo International Film Festival

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olivh2o

13Jun11

A real invitation to a travel to forget pain, through Peruvian mountains...

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VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS

5Jun11

El punto de partida de este film de Peter Brossens suena interesante. La vida de dos mujeres de diferentes nacionalidades (una belga, la otra peruana) se ven entrecruzadas por la muerte de sus respectivas parejas (debido a un hecho que las conecta entre si) y mientras la peruana decide suicidarse a forma de protesta (mediante una especie de aburrido ritual videograbado) la otra decide emprender un viaje al sitio donde murió su esposo buscando exorcisar sus demonios internos y reencontrarse consigo misma. El director pone mucha atención en el aspecto visual y sonoro del film (todo luce "muy bonito" y con aspecto de videoclip), pero el problema es que los demas elementos no gozan de la misma consistencia. A pesar de su llamativo empaque, la pinche peliculita luce tan plana como empalagosa, y la mano pesada de Brosens para el timing (la madre esta termina sintiendose como de 4 horas) hace poco por mejorar el asunto. Además, en el aspecto ideologico, el film maneja la trillada visión primermundista de que los paises latinoamericanos (en este caso, la chinga le tocó a Perú) no estan poblados más que por puros pinches indios supersticiosos y retrogradas.

danliofer

30May11

It is a film opus I haven´t seen for ages... text, music and pictures - all in perfect harmony... this will resonate in me for a long long time...

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Giancarlo Rolando

23May11

Brutally beautiful and sadly not too far away from real life. It is true that in a few moments the dialogues are somewhat pretentious and overdramatic, but overall it is a great film.

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"Soul Kitchen," "The Tillman Story," "Altiplano," More

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No film review will be read more eagerly this week than Scott Foundas's piece for the cover of the September/October issue of Film Comment

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A masterpiece

By Vicenti​u Garbace​a on June 3, 2010

Altiplano is a truly amazing, poetic and surreal work of art without any shadow of pretentiousness, but filled with beauty and simplicity. The narrative which involves a Belgian couple, briefly Iraq…  read review

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