Reviews

Probably Jakubowicz is the start of a new wave of filmmakers long time needed in Venezuelan Cinema.

This movie has a new kind of approach in every aspect: production, direction, screen writing, marketing, etc. Even when it deals with really tough issues of our society, it's something we venezuelans can be proud of.

Finally something the new audiences can relate to, instead of dreadful films by Chalbaud and Azpúrua, the responsibles for the decadence in the quality in venezuelan films.

Hooray for Jakubowicz!

Set during the Independence War (early 1800's), when Simón Bolívar's troops fought against Spain to free Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and New Granada (now Colombia), Manuela Sáenz tells the love story between Sáenz and Bolívar in a very romantic way, and also shows the character of this woman, who stood up by herself in a time were woman were diminished.

The film has a great script (by Leonardo Padrón), and Cézary Jaworsky makes a remarkable job with the photography. Not to mention the great directing by Diego Rísquez.

This movie also features the last performance by Mariano Álvarez (Simón Bolívar), whose career in venezuelan TV, theater and cinema will never be forgotten.

And Beatríz Valdés (Manuela Sáenz) shows that she can make much more than just soap operas.

If you want to see a great story about this great woman, go see this movie!

Like many other people, I was amazed by the great reviews this movie had before its premier in Venezuela, so I went to see it immediately.

This is a very cool movie in a sort of Tarantino-meets-Guy-Ritchie way, but it's quite obvious that Bielinsky doesn't copy any of these styles, and tries to develop his very own language. And in my opinion, he succeeded!

Nice to see a South American movie that tries to be entertaining, and not the usual "I want to show the social problems, so I can change the world" crap...

For me, I'll be waiting for Bielinsky next deliver...

This is the kind of film that gives a bad name to artistic movies.

The technical aspects of the movies are really cool, but you can't never understand what the movie is all about, I mean, besides of the fact that a big wave is coming to destroy the town (kind of prophecy of the mud slides that in 1999 destroyed La Guaira, the town where the movie was filmed).

The film makers have tried to build a film that is artistic, but in the thin line that divides genius directors from simply stupid movie makers, I believe that they're on the wrong side.

...are you familiarized with the concept of manga and animé? These are japanese artforms, but obviously influenced somehow this movie made in Taiwan.

A lot of stupid people here say that they don't liked this film because it features flying people, or it doesn't have trama, or the romance is dull... Well, all I got to say to them is that if this where an animé movie with colorful hair styles, and big eyes, probably they would say that it is fantastic.

Wake up idiots, this is an animé with real actors!

Jericó is probably the best Venezuelan movie ever made. It was very well written and directed, and it shows probably the most traumatic period in the history of the New Continent.

The only thing that kept this movie for being perfect is the fact that the budget was so low that the director couldn't do the epic sequences required for these kinds of movies; sequences that could show the carnage of the first battles between conquistadors and aborigines.

But when you make a balance, the way that the movie show the evolution of the character Father Santiago, make everything worth it. Not to mention the incredible acting of Cosme Cortázar in the role.

Definitely a must see...