- Whisky (film)
Infobox Film
name = Whisky
image_size =
caption = Theatrical Poster
director =Juan Pablo Rebella Pablo Stoll
producer = Executive Producers:
Fernando Epstein
Producers:
Christoph Friedel
Hernán Musaluppi
writer = Gonzalo Delgado
Juan Pablo Rebella
Pablo Stoll
narrator =
starring =Andres Pazos Mirella Pascual Jorge Bolani
music = Pequeña Orquesta Reincidentes
cinematography =Bárbara Álvarez
editing = Fernando Epstein
distributor = MK2 Diffusion
released =May 19 ,2004
(premiere at Cannes)
runtime = 99 minutes
country =Argentine Germany Spain Uruguay
language = Spanish
Italian
budget = $500,000
estimated.
website =
amg_id = 1:308515
imdb_id = 0331370"Whisky" is an Uruguayan, Argentine, German, and Spanish
tragicomedy released in 2004, and directed byJuan Pablo Rebella andPablo Stoll . [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331370/ "Whisky"] at theInternet Movie Database .]The film stars
Andres Pazos ,Mirella Pascual ,Jorge Bolani , Ana Katz, andDaniel Hendler .It debuted at the
Cannes Film Festival and won theFIPRESCI Prize and the Regard Original Award.Plot
On the first anniversary of his mother's death, Jacobo (
Andres Pazos ), the owner of a small and struggling sock factory, asks one of his attentive employees, Marta (Mirella Pascual ), to spend a few days at his home because his brother (Jorge Bolani ) is arriving for a visit.It takes some time to realize that Jacobo asks because he has no one else to ask.
Why Marta agrees is another matter.
Exhibition
The film was first presented at the
Cannes Film Festival onMay 19 , 2004.The picture was screened at various film festivals, including: the La Rochelle Film Festival,
France ; theKarlovy Vary Film Festival ,Czech Republic ; the Brussels Cinédécouvertes Film Festival,Belgium ; theCopenhagen International Film Festival ,Denmark ; theToronto Film Festival ,Canada ; and others.Release dates
*
Argentina :February 3 , 2005 (Buenos Aires),March 3 , 2005 (wide)
*Canada :September 16 , 2004
*Germany :May 5 , 2005
*Spain :December 10 , 2004
*United Kingdom :October 22 , 2004
*United States :October 12 , 2004
*Uruguay :August 6 , 2004Critical reception
The film was well received by film critics and at the film festival it was screened.
Critic
Manohla Dargis , writing for the "New York Times " said, "the film is a model of both fiscal and narrative economy, and the kind of work - gleaned from the mysteries of consciousness, telling quotidian details and a sense of aesthetic proportion - that is too often missing from American independent cinema." [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/movies/03whis.html?ex=1173070800&en=c86fede74df0dbf3&ei=5070 Dargis, Manohla] . "The New York Times," film review, "A Tale of Connections, Tiny Ones Made and Far Greater Ones Lost Forever," March 3, 2005.]Cast
*
Andrés Pazos as Jacobo Koller
*Mirella Pascual as Marta Acuña
*Jorge Bolani as Herman Koller
* Ana Katz as Graciela, the young wife
*Daniel Hendler as Martín, the young husband
* Verónica Perrotta as Jacobo's worker 1
* Mariana Velazques as Jacobo's worker 2
* Dumas Lerena as Isaac, Jacobo's client
* Damián Barrera as Andrés, the receptionist
* Alfonso Tort as Juan Carlos, the bellboy
* Francisca Barreira as Young girl singerFootnotes
External links
* [http://www.cinenacional.com/peliculas/index.php?pelicula=3189 "Whisky"] at the
cinenacional.com sp icon.
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