Uruguayan
see all genres ›Like many Latin American film industries, that of Uruguay was for decades hobbled by financial struggle and political repression. Today, its roughly half-dozen features a year run the gamut from historical critique to contemporary youth drama.
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Leo's Room
In the heart of Montevideo, the affable but secretly troubled Leo wraps himself in the comfort of his small rented room, unmotivated to finish his college thesis or find a job and content with infrequent visits from his girlfriend. After their six-month relationship ends, Leo begins to break out...Watch Movie
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Whisky
Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki seem to haunt this deadpan comedy from Uruguay about an over-sixty "love" triangle between a grumpy sock factory owner, his faithful assistant and his excessively cheerful, far more successful brother. Realizing he should at least pretend to have a life beyond the...Watch Movie
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A Useful Life
This gentle black-and-white ode to a life lived among the reels was one of the discoveries of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Forty-five and saddled with a fashion sense as outdated as the videotapes he hides his keys in, Jorge (played by Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek) has...Watch Movie
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Candombe
More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of slaves from Africa whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernado Nunez, a black man, a musician and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an...Watch Movie
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Goodbye Momo
Obdulio is an eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living, though he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro"...Watch Movie
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Hasta nunca
HASTA NUNCA follows Mario Ligetti, a middle-aged DJ in Montevideo, Uruguay whose call-in radio show exposes the city's "Secrets and Stories." As Mario's life becomes more entangled with that of his callers and listeners, his public and private personas are blurred and the intimate nuances of a...Watch Movie
