The Colors of the Mountain
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Directed by | Carlos César Arbeláez |
Produced by | Julián Giraldo |
Starring | Genaro Aristizábal |
Cinematography | Cheef Keif |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Countries | Colombia Panama |
Language | Spanish |
The Colors of the Mountain (
Cast
- Genaro Aristizábal
- Natalia Cuéllar
- Hernán Méndez
- Hernán Mauricio Ocampo as Manuel
- Nolberto Sánchez as Julián
Plot
The film tells the story of an unnamed village in a mountainous region of present-day Colombia, focusing on its children in the perspective of 9 year old Manuel and his family.
The film starts with the scene of children entering a
Manuel lives with his mother, father Ernesto and infant brother on a small finca, owning a couple of cows and raising pigs. He takes a trip to a market where his father tries to sell a piglet. His father leaves Manuel at an outdoor cafe table, disappears in a house and returns with a small grain sack. Back home at night he is seated at a small table opposite his father when his mother brings in a small chocolate cake lit with nine candles and Manuel unpacks his birthday present, a soccer ball and goalkeeper gloves.
The next day the boys are playing soccer with the new ball which lands in a rocky flat. At the same time, a large black sow that Ernesto was pulling runs nearby the same flat, a detonation is heard and the animal flies in the air. Everyone is stunned, children, men and the teacher. She proposes to post a sign warning the community of the presence of landmines.
The film revolves around Manuel's attempts to retrieve the ball, with the help of his older friend Julian and Poca Luz, an albino boy, as well as the changes of the village, the growing number of absent students at school, families fleeing while paramilitaries and guerrillas are moving in and fight for control of the area.
Reviews
The film was positively reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter as operating "at the more accessible end of the arthouse spectrum, wrapping up an essentially tough, even bleak narrative within a lively, soccer-themed evocation of childhood".[2]
Awards
The film won the Golden Pheasant Award for the Best Film at the sixteenth International Film Festival of Kerala, held in Thiruvananthapuram.[3] It was selected as the Colombian entry for the
The film premiered at the
See also
- List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Colombian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ISBN 978-1908215017.
- ^ a b Neil Young The Colors of the Mountain: Film Review The Hollywood Reporter, 1 November 2010, retrieved 30 December 2015
- ISBN 978-93-83330-44-7
- ^ "'Colors' is Colombia Oscar entry". Variety. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar". 18 January 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN, Customer reviews Film movement, n.d., retrieved 30 December 2015
- ^ Hannah Aronowitz ‘The Colors of the Mountain’ to open Cartagena film festival Colombia Reports, 21 February 2011, retrieved 30 December 2015
External links
- The Colors of the Mountain at IMDb