This movie's truly original pitch/premise has so much potential, and I can't stress enough the words SO MUCH POTENTIAL, that the story Claudia Llosa chose in the end, although interesting and beautiful in it's own way, falls short compared to the expectation THAT pitch creates. In other words, there are so many possibilities regarding human sinful behavior and how to approach it given this 'sin doesn't exist for like 3 days for some "faithful believers"' idea that one is left wanting to see the movie from the point of view of 5 or 6 totally different characters instead.
The movie won like 5 or 6 Best Screenplay awards in different film festivals besides winning an award at the Mar del Plata film festival AND being nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, which says a lot. However, the screenplay is not perfect. There are scenes which are dull and to be honest, plain dumb; a couple of others could've been left out without causing a negative effect.
But talking about Madeinusa's positive aspects and artistic value, the movie's defining moment (and the most memorable one in "first-time-acting/first-time-directing" independent film making history, I must say) has got to be Magaly Solier's interpretation of the song (created by herself, by the way) she sings to Salvador. The most humble, truly innocent, naive and authentic performance you'll ever see this side of the world. That scene alone is worth watching a couple of times and help diminish all those little plot holes/errors/contradictions that could've been polished to perfection in Llosa's script.
The movie won like 5 or 6 Best Screenplay awards in different film festivals besides winning an award at the Mar del Plata film festival AND being nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, which says a lot. However, the screenplay is not perfect. There are scenes which are dull and to be honest, plain dumb; a couple of others could've been left out without causing a negative effect.
But talking about Madeinusa's positive aspects and artistic value, the movie's defining moment (and the most memorable one in "first-time-acting/first-time-directing" independent film making history, I must say) has got to be Magaly Solier's interpretation of the song (created by herself, by the way) she sings to Salvador. The most humble, truly innocent, naive and authentic performance you'll ever see this side of the world. That scene alone is worth watching a couple of times and help diminish all those little plot holes/errors/contradictions that could've been polished to perfection in Llosa's script.