Zona Sur
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Southern District
País:
Director:
Juan Carlos Valdivia Color:
Color
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
109 min
Cast:
- Ninón del Castillo, Nicolás Fernández,
- Juan Pablo Koria, Mariana Vargas, Viviana Condori
Production:
- GUIÓN: Juan Carlos Valdivia
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Paul de Lumen
- MONTAJE: Ivan Layme
- PRODUCCIÓN: Gabriela Maire
Contact:
- Centro Cultural Yaneramai / Shoreline Ent.
- Chasquipampa, calle 53, N 3
- 13941 La Paz, Bolivia
- T +59 12 279 9440
- E contactos@yaneramai.net
- info@shorelineentertainment.com
- W www.yaneramai.net
- www.zonasurfilm.com
Synopsis
The southern district of La Paz is where rich people live. Carola (Ninón del Castillo) is both the head of the house and a mother with a particular intensity: in Southern District, matriarchy is the law. The only grown man with some sort or relevance in this story is the butler, Wilson (Pascual Loayza), who has a long time bond with Carola and the kids. The family is not in its finest financial hour, and you can feel the tensions: between the mother and the children; between the mother/head of the house and Wilson; and between a life style that’s out of sync and the changing times. Valdivia (whose first film Jonah and the Pink Whale was released in Argentina) doesn´t focus on the social implications of this family story, and neither does he distribute awards and punishments within the house. His portrait of the end of a lifestyle is a subtle and even elegant one. Featuring amazingly precise performances, raw dialog, and a realist approach on sex scenes, Southern District also offers an admirable organization of sequence shots with a moving camera, which adds some extra fluency to a family story that’s very well told, both in its core and its margins and resonances.
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