Foreign Movie Review: EVEN THE RAIN (2011) A

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A serious movie about a subject we hear very little about.  The Spanish conquest of South America and the treatment of the natives by the people.  A VERY UGLY TIME IN HISTORY THAT LASTED 400.  I assume this movie was produced for present day Spanish people who are not aware of their history of conquest and abuse.

 Excerpts From Other Reviews:  This movie sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of the members of a film crew  who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of Latin America.

Set in February and March of 2000 when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in what Variety calls "a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America's dispossessed." Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as a local who is cast as a 15th century native in the film, but when the make-up and loin cloth come off, he sails into action protesting his community's deprivation of water at the hands of the government.