Whisky

Uruguay, Spain, Germany, Argentina

2004

99 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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DIR Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll Ward

PROD Hernán Musaluppi, Christoph Friedel

SCR Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll Ward, Gonzalo Delgado

CAST Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, Daniel Hendler, Verónica Perrotta

SOUND Catriel Vildosola, Daniel Yafalián

Toronto, Cannes (Un Certain Regard): FIPRESCI Prize, San Sebastián (Zabaltegi), Transilvania (Competition): Transilvania Trophy

Synopsis

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. The owner of a sock factory in Montevideo, and Marta, his employee, realize that their estranged relationship needs to change when Jacobo’s long-lost brother prompting them to pose as a married couple. –IMDb

Director

Juan Pablo Rebella

Juan Pablo Rebella (born Montevideo, 1974 – died July 5, 2006) was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.
He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.

After graduating in 1999 he and Stoll started work on their first feature film, 25 Watts (2001), it went on to win several international awards: Best Feature Film Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best 1st Feature Film Award at the Havana Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Award and Best Male Actor Award at the Independent Film Festival Buenos Aires

In 2004 Rebella and Stoll released their second feature film Whisky, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and opened to critical acclaim, winning the Regard Original Award.

Whisky also won the Sundance Film Festival’s NHK International Filmmakers Award for Latin-America.

Rebella also acted… read more

Pablo Stoll Ward

Pablo Stoll (1974, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Juan Pablo Rebella first began. After graduating in 1999 he and Rebella started work on their first feature film, 25 Watts (2001), it went on to win several international awards: Best Feature Film Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best 1st Feature Film Award at La Habana Film Festival, FIPRESCI Award and Best Male Actor Award at the Independent Film Festival Buenos Aires.
In 2004 Stoll and Rebella released their second feature film Whisky it was a surprise hit at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival opening to much acclaim, winning the Regard Original Award. Whisky also won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award for Latin-America. In-between his film projects Stoll works as a freelance director for advertising… read more

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Nelly Steunou

16Jul12

une très jolie et simple métaphore de l'existence.

Jaime Valdueza

8Apr12

Loved this film. I can watch it a thousand times. It feels like a Jim Jarmusch meets Kurismaki film made in Uruguay. I can't wait to see more films by these filmmakers.

jmcnally

14Aug10

Uruguay is like the Finland of South America, and Whisky is a work of Kaurismaki-an genius. Deadpan and all the funnier (and also sadder) because of it, Whisky is a gem with strong performances from the three leads. I like the fact that so many things are left unsaid and unexplained in the film, like the characters' lives extend far beyond the frame of the film, and that we're just spying on them for a few days.

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Ardhi Syaifuddin

29Jun10

This is the only Uruguayan film I've ever seen, and I saw it by chance (a filler between two screenings at some film festival I was attending) without knowing anything before the screening. It was such a joy to discover a funny & wonderful 'unknown' little film with the spirit and humour of Jacques Tati.