Even the Rain

high concept drama that works because it is really felt by the creators. The making of a film about Columbus and the juxtaposition against the struggles of an indigenous people against an unjust state. The lines between these elements are very often deliberately and ingeniously blurred. The cast of characters are at once large and small, whelmed by some fantastic performances in Posar, Aduviri, and Bernal, with other excellent turns as well. It reminded me in parts of Andor S2, the true human cost of rebellion. My criticism would be to question how much of this can possibly be discussed in this kind of tale. It felt a bit like we only skimmed the surface in the space of an hour and forty. How much, by addressing it at all, do we risk hypocrisy? Does that even matter? Given the injustice at the heart of the contemporary drama, with real human lives being put at risk, what is best - to put the story on screen with an artistic vision behind exploring meaning and difficult questions or to try and create a documentary account? Given how engaging I found this, I lean, in fact, towards the former, which is why I think this film is excellent. It took that risk.