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BOLIVIA/ FOOD FILMS/
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dir:Adrián
Caetano/ prod:Lita
Stantic, Matiás
Mosteirín/ cast:Freddie
Flores, Rosa Sanchez, Oscar Bertea, Enrique Liporace,
Marcelo Videla/ 75’/ Argentina/ 2001
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During the opening credits of
Bolivia, we see TV fragments of a soccer match between
Argentina and Bolivia. This makes it clear just how the
two countries get on: under the jeering and chauvinist
commentary of an Argentine presenter the Bolivian side is
hacked to pieces. The Bolivian Freddie left his wife and
children to seek work in Argentina. He finds a job as a
cook in a grill restaurant in Buenos Aires. The clientele,
largely coarse beer-drinking drivers, view the new cook
with suspicion and disgust: why did the owner take on a
foreigner when there are so many unemployed Argentineans?
Freddie works away in silence and tries to ignore the
provocative insults of the drivers. He does make friends
with the waitress (who is however also the sweetheart of
one of the regulars) and holds his boss in high regard.
But if you bind yourself to anything, you get yourself
into deep water… The story of Bolivia is largely set in
the restaurant, where the camera stays close to the
characters. Dialogues are only used sparingly. The black
and white images of everyday life in the restaurant and
the significant looks of guests and staff are enough to
sketch a sultry mood, while the melancholy Bolivian music
fits in perfectly with this story about xenophobia and
nostalgia.
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