Utama

Name: Utama
Genre: Drama
Released: November 4, 2022
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Candelaria Quispe, Félix Ticona, Jorge Yucra Nogales, José Calcina, Juan Carlos Calcina

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 4, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Candelaria Quispe, Félix Ticona, Jorge Yucra Nogales, José Calcina, Juan Carlos Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Placide Ali, René Calcina, René Pérez, Santos Choque

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Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Summary: In 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 decideIn 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 to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Peter Debruge

Jan 29, 2022

[A] sublime, quietly elegiac feature debut. Read full review

The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

Jan 29, 2022

Admittedly, Utama is a simple story, but one that packs an emotional punch without endless exposition or symbolism. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Jan 29, 2022

Through the love story at the heart of this visually arresting feature debut, Utama offers the audience a relatable connection with a way of life which is on the verge of extinction. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Nov 22, 2022

An elegiac, minimalist fable, Utama is about many things: global warming, survival, our connections to each other, our priorities. It’s the silences that propel the narrative forward, the wide-open spaces that sear themselves into the mind. But hope prevails. Read full review

Nov 4, 2022

It is a spare and yet unsparing film, and a bold artistic statement from an emerging filmmaker. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

Feb 14, 2022

Utama is a slow-motion look at how communities can falter, how rich heritage can be lost—to indifference from governments as well as a climate crisis that will decimate their way of life. If only it weren’t so gentle in its reminder. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Nov 3, 2022

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. Read full review

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Feb 22, 2023

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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 therapeutic obstinacy, yet the conclusive impression(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 therapeutic 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").… Expand

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