El Gran Movimiento
59th New York Film Festival
September 24 - October 10, 2021
Kiro Russo has mounted a monumental, gently mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs, set in the alternately harsh and beautiful terrain of La Paz, Bolivia and its surrounding rural areas.
Closes Thursday!
Expanding on the hybrid narrative of his remarkable 2016 film Dark Skull, Kiro Russo has mounted a monumental, gently mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs. Set in the alternately harsh and beautiful terrain of La Paz, Bolivia and its surrounding rural areas, El Gran Movimiento follows a young miner as he looks for work alongside his friends, even as he begins to descend into a mysterious sickness. With its marvelous long-lens zoom work and increasingly dynamic, rhythmic editing, Russo’s film is a hypnotic journey into a psychological space that touches upon the supernatural. An NYFF59 selection. A KimStim release.
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A boundary-pushing cinematic exercise... undoubtedly one of the best films of the year.
—Dustin Chang, ScreenAnarchy
A supernatural allegory about modernity.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety
In its mix of social realism and dream-like strangeness, this Bolivian film is pretty much Ken Loach meets David Lynch.
—Edward Porter, The Times UK
As exhilarating and revelatory as it is disturbing.
—William Repass, Slant Magazine
A work both fascinating in its suggestions and beautiful in its compositions.
—Soham Gadre, The Film Stage
Surreal and ridiculous and charming.
—A.C. Koch, Spectrum Culture
A soaring depiction of life.
—Caitlin Quinlan, BOMB Magazine
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