- 2022
- Kino Lorber
- 1 h 27 m
SummaryIn the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether t...
Directed By:Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Written By:Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Utama
Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
88% Positive
14 Reviews
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13% Mixed
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Nov 11, 2022
80
No part of Utama feels fabricated. The costumes are a part of the environment; the camera work is as simple as it could be, but what is in front of the camera is elevated by a lovely stillness. Alvarez turns Bolivia into a series of portraits and Grisi is the perfect conduit to tell such a specific tale of love and life.
Jan 29, 2022
80
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.
Nov 4, 2022
75
It is a spare and yet unsparing film, and a bold artistic statement from an emerging filmmaker.
Oct 30, 2022
63
Stock story beats of generational dispute run throughout Utama, existing mainly to show off the widescreen possibilities of the Scope frame.
Nov 3, 2022
60
While climate change shadows every anxious discussion here, it also remains at a safe remove, a vague threat embedded in an aesthetically soothing package and gently salted with tears.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
40% Positive
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Feb 22, 2023
5
(Mauro Lanari)
A first work winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance but dispersive, wavering and contradictory: it laps environmentalism, patriarchy, generational change, dwells more on the grandfather and his impeccable opposition to **** obstinacy, yet the conclusive impression is that of ethnographic cinema. "Silence is not always good," says the grandmother to her grandson, but the dialogues are cut to the bone and replaced by a soundtrack with rhetorical tracks ("Cantos crepuscolares", "Solitaria").
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Production Company:
- Alma Films
Release Date:Nov 4, 2022
Duration:1 h 27 m
Genres:
Tagline:El tiempo se ha cansado
Awards
The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Málaga Spanish Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
