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Quo vado? (2016)
Laughed out loud
I laughed out loud, most of the film, and I'm not sure why. It felt almost like a dirty pleasure. The movie portrays and even celebrates several aspects of Latin/Mediterranean cultures (which are to a great extent inherited by most Latin American countries). I felt it represented my people and it resonated with me.
It does a great job caricaturing the profile of the natural born public worker, who aspires nothing more than a post in public office and the security that comes with it.
It uses Nordic cultures to contrast traditional Italian values, and how the world is changing, and what is politically correct, versus what older generations expected.
All in all I found it a refreshing break from Hollywood based humor and mindset, the whole you gotta be a winner thing, you gotta be a passionate worker vs the more plain joy de vivre that celebrates life, and does not need work to justify its existence.
Miss Tacuarembó (2010)
Well worth it if you are uruguayan, born in the late 70'
I saw this movie with no expectations, assuming it would be awful since it got little press around here, but to my surprise I enjoyed it more than most films made lately in Uruguay. It's a little bizarre and surreal, in a low budget way, but that only adds to the picturesque of it.
This movie will be particularly funny to those who've grown up in Uruguay in the 80's since it's full of cultural references, like the soap opera it mentions, and the heretic treatment catholicism gets.
The ending is a little weak, and could have been made better, like so many things in this movie, but overall is an enjoyable tribute to growing up in a little town in this part of the world.